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Director-General to strengthen UNESCO’s specialized capacity on climate change, building upon UNESCO’s unique interdisciplinary profile.

and their lack of capacity to respond to them were major obstacles to the sustainable development of the region, which depended on the health and vitality of the marine environment.

on all local e-govenance initiatives in the country, identifying and analysing similar programmes in other countries, and analysing and summarizing the strengths and weaknesses of those initiatives.

development with an increasing fear of reversal in particular with regard to the MDGs.

referred as “the Country”) and the Executive Committee with respect to the reduction of controlled use of the ozone-depleting substances (ODS) set out in Appendix 1-A (“The Substances”) to a sustained aggregate level of 2.11 ODP tonnes prior to 1 January 2020 in compliance with Montreal Protocol schedules, with the understanding that this figure is to be revised one single time in 2011, when the baseline consumption for compliance would be established based on Article 7 data, with the funding to be adjusted accordingly, as per decision 60/44.

collection centres and local governments owning several regional waste management centres – the main part of waste collection, sorting, recovery, etc. takes place in the private sector.

instruments (with Armenia, Austria, Azerbaijan, Belarus, Bulgaria, Egypt, Estonia, France, Italy, Latvia, Malta, Moldova, Poland, Romania, Turkey, Ukraine, United Kingdom, United States of America and Uzbekistan) or on the basis of reciprocity, the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Georgia closely cooperates with the respective agencies of partner countries to tackle international terrorism.

action: (a) improve national capacity for policy formulation, negotiations, evaluation and enforcement; (b) ensure that full cost-benefit analysis and environmental impact assessment of potential mining sites are undertaken; (c) establish fair and transparent compensation systems to mitigate natural resource loss, environmental damage, and socio-economic costs; (d) legislate, manage and enforce national mineral policy frameworks and environmental management plans; (e) develop institutional capacity on mining tenement issues, company selection, closure, and institutional weaknesses; (f) assess resources and develop mineral databases; and (g) increase stakeholder participation.

beans and cucurbits sectors and is confident that it is correct.

development for local governance, and the many experiences of UNDP in facilitating public-service adaptation for local-level development (for example in Nepal, Rwanda, Somalia, Ghana and South Africa), two conclusions were drawn: first, that local governance has played an important role in facilitating the achievement of the Millennium Development Goals and can serve as a veritable implementation vehicle for the post-2015 development agenda; and second, that citizens’ engagement, including the appropriate and innovative use of information and communication strategies, has the power to strengthen local governance by infusing it with transparency, accountability and ownership.

from the various approaches for iterative analysis, whereby information from one method informs another.

which on average brings together between 400 and 500 representatives of philanthropic corporations, academic institutions, non-governmental organizations, intergovernmental organizations and Member States; and the high-level segment of the substantive session of the Economic and Social Council, which includes meetings and panels that bring together the United Nations international financial and trade institutions, the bulk of the United Nations system of agencies, programmes and funds, civil society, the private sector and members of the press, who have often served as moderators.

taken measures to rationalize its water resources, reduce even further its greenhouse gas emissions and develop renewable energy sources, particularly solar.

welcomes the work of the Committee and its role and that of its Chair in combating the proliferation of weapons of mass destruction and preventing their being acquired by non-State actors.