Investor Presentaiton
Environmental Impact Assessment & SDGs
In the last few years, EIA is increasingly becoming as familiar and
important as economic analysis in project evaluation. Thus EIA:
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Provides a unique opportunity to demonstrate ways in which the
environment may be improved as part of the development process.
Predicts the conflicts and constraints between the proposed project,
programme or sectoral plan and its environment.
Provides an opportunity for mitigation measures to be incorporated to
minimize problems.
Enables monitoring programmes to be established to assess future
impacts and provide data on which managers can take informed
decisions to avoid environmental damage.
It is now well understood that environment and development are
complementary and interdependent and EIA is a technique for ensuring
that the two are mutually reinforcing
RAIMI MORUFU OLALEKAN - ASSOCIATION FOR ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT ASSESSMENT OF NIGERIA (AEIAN)View entire presentation