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External sources (not reviewed)

Since 84.7 per cent of the population

In the area of health, child and maternal mortality rates and

The air pollution level in winter months, however, is much higher because the prevailing north

Tuberculosis has developed as a result of the straitened circumstances in which a large proportion

The growing awareness of the intrinsic interactions among humans, animals and the environment in

The aim is to demonstrate the application of lumped models for understanding nutrient sources and processes at the catchment scale and how

Guided by regional priorities, regional observing systems provide data and information that are tailored

Efforts at development of human capacities in least developed countries have been affected by high incidence of poverty, mass unemployment, high population growth rates, poor health and nutrition outcomes, as evidenced by high child and maternal morbidity and mortality rates and

The increase in chronic conditions in middle- and low-income countries is particularly challenging because many of those

(c) The efforts exerted by the Council of Arab Ministers of Health, in cooperation with member States, with a view to implementing Goal 4, concerning the reduction of infant mortality rates, Goal 5, concerning the improvement of

Delegates recognized the need for governments in the region to strengthen national programmes and

The Committee is aware that the Administration has put in place various measures, such as enforcing legislation governing environmental impact assessments, water pollution control and designation of marine parks,

Measures to improve energy use included diversifying energy sources and using them more efficiently in combination with cleaner fossil fuel technologies; developing a global liquefied natural gas market; accelerating the development of affordable energy conservation technologies and their transfer to oil- producing developing countries in particular; minimizing oil and gas losses and emissions throughout the production and distribution process; facilitating the provision to oilproducing and oil-exporting countries of affordable technologies to transform solid fuels to liquid or gaseous fuels, control gas flaring and venting, and perform carbon capture and storage or

Given that private companies have to be primarily responsible to their shareholders, this necessarily leads to a research agenda led by the market demand in the markets of the developed

Several also considered that the overarching goals for which UNESCO was established remain even more valid and relevant today, in an environment characterized by emerging trends and global challenges, such as the persistence of threats to peace and international security, the deepening of poverty, together with its

The Special Committee requests the Department of Peacekeeping Operations and the Department of Field Support to continue to provide an annual, detailed, briefing to the Special Committee on the progress made in dealing with healthrelated issues in peacekeeping operations, and in this regard, looks forward to receiving, in advance of its next substantive session, information on the causes and

For example, the programme entitled “Addressing land-based activities in the Western Indian Ocean” is aimed at improving the knowledge base and establishing regional guidelines for the reduction of stress on the marine and coastal

One member suggested that UNIDO try to diversify its resource mobilization project to include air conditioning for it to be of more value to Article 5 countries, while another member said that

This suggested that some of the HEV isolates may have been present