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Important achievements during 2004-2005 included initiatives on the Sustainable Management of Natural Resources in the High Pamir and Pamir-Alai Mountains; the inauguration of the UNU Summer School for Bird’s-eye View Experts on Environment as a new initiative to facilitate UNU’s role as a focal point in knowledge exchange to enhance holistic perspectives of global environmental issues; finalization of a global scientific review intended to lead to the harmonization of approaches for developing nutrient-based dietary standards; and development of a

Five major themes of convergence between these three authors were identified during that first informal reflection process: (i) the place of pedagogy in their work, especially through education, experimentation and learning; (ii) nature, in the form of the desire for the search for a new covenant of solidarity between humanity and its environment; (iii) scientific and technological progress, enriched by dialogue with all forms of knowledge; (iv) human rights and democracy in response to colonialism, discrimination and

With regard to the incremental costs of the conversion of the foam manufacturing enterprises, the following issues were addressed: the higher unitary costs proposed for several equipment items, such as storage tanks, dispenser retrofit, and safety-related equipment, as compared to other similar costs agreed in previously approved projects; the application of similar unitary costs to all enterprises irrespective of the output capacity or the age of the equipment, or the number of equipment items in the baseline; the feasibility of reducing the number of premixing stations and polyol buffer tanks; and the