environmental damage costs

基本解释

It is estimated that environmental damage costs up to 8 per cent of China's GDP each year.
估計每年，中國的環境破壞要損失百分之八的GDP。
blog.sina.com.cn
According to Mr Want, environmental damage costs the country up to 5% of its economic output each year.
根據MR WANT，每年環境的破壞使得這個國家付出了多達百分之五的經濟産量的代價。
The article divided the environmental costs into the four categories:the environment consumption costs, the environmental damage costs, the maintenance costs and the environmental costs.
文中把環境成本分爲環境消耗成本、環境損失成本、環境維護成本和環境保護成本四大類。

The argument is that just as the potential costs of environmental damage, or a lawsuit, should be revealed to investors, so should the potential costs of doing business with a pariah state.
CENTERFORSECURITYPOLICY: Center for Security Policy The Financial Times Misses The Mark In Editorial On New, SEC- Affirmed Political Risk Factors In The U.S. Capital Markets
This will most likely entail increasing the corn ethanol mix in petroleum, running up food costs, depleting water supplies, and causing environmental land damage while affording no net CO2 emission reduction.
FORBES: Cap-and-Trade Fantasies In Disneyland