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(c) Fully harnessing the potential of current and planned information and communications technology systems to reduce administrative work and share information among staff, units and missions.

[...] that already made a calculation based on the GWP of various [...]

We saw the potential cost savings of moving to thin clients and carried out a benchmark test to assess what was on the market.

(f) The fact that the creation of the new Centre, i.e. CICB, is not seen as a creation of physically new infrastructure is not considered a disadvantage by the feasibility study team with regard to its potential for effectively functioning as a category II UNESCO centre that will coordinate the future work of three existing Centres of Excellence that have already had UNESCO association over a considerable number of years and will also launch strategically important activities on its own.

With respect to the value added, there is increasing recognition that the Peacebuilding Commission represents a potentially viable [...] [...]

[...] [...] follows: (a) to develop each human being’s creative potential for the full [...] [...]

Based on their experience in the mining sector, small island developing States have identified the following areas for priority 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.

Voluntary measures, often favored by industry because of their flexibility and potentially lower costs, are in many cases opposed by environmental groups because of their lack of accountability and enforcement.

Both organizations share common experiences and lessons learned, and the growing focus of the Bank on conflict-affected and fragile environments is one potential area for joint action.

With a view to broadening knowledge about the dialogue and its inherent potential as a tool for reconciliation, mutual understanding and peace-building, additional volumes were published in the UNESCO Dialogue Series containing the proceedings of “Dialogue among Civilizations: Quest for New Perspectives” (New Delhi, July 2003), the “Regional Forum on Dialogue among Civilizations”, (Ohrid, August 2003) as well as “Globalization with a Human Face – Benefitting All” (Tokyo, July 2003).

Glider AUVs such as the Slocum and Sea Glider have attributes that make them well suited for environmental monitoring tasks.

[...] [...] on the basis of lack of resource potential

The Chief Officer proposed the inclusion of four additional items under agenda item 18, “Other matters”: the report of the Executive Committee to the Open-ended Working Group on the progress made in reducing emissions of controlled substances from process agent uses (follow-up to decision XVII/6 of the Seventeenth Meeting of the Parties); the Fund Secretariat’s pending response to the Ozone Secretariat regarding the environmentally sound management of ODS banks, pursuant to decision XX/7 of the Twentieth Meeting of the Parties; the workshop for a dialogue on high global-warming potential (GWP) alternatives to ODS, as per decision XX/8 of the Twentieth Meeting of the Parties; and confirmation of the dates and venues of the 58thand 59th Meetings of the Executive Committee.

Following the recommendation of several participants at the Conference to provide the same amount of support to Kosovo as that given to Serbia, Croatia, and Bosnia and Herzegovina, the Tribunal has approached potential donors with a proposal for the production of transcripts in Albanian for relevant cases.

A second direction for new initiatives will probably be found in outreach for raising awareness among the general public on the potential of our planet for future generations and to encourage young people to learn more about our home planet, its powers, its beauty and its challenges.

It also considered the issue from a more general point of view in resolution 1373 (2001) on threats to international peace and security caused by terrorist acts (the Council “[noted] with concern the close connection between international terrorism and transnational organized crime, illicit drugs, money-laundering, illegal arms-trafficking, and illegal movement of nuclear, chemical, biological and other potentially deadly materials”) [...] [...]

Although the potential benefits from the development of copyright-based industries in some developing countries may be enticing in some cases, it is hard not to conclude from looking at the evidence from the developing world overall that the negative impacts of stronger copyright protection are likely to be more immediate and significant for the majority of the world’s poor.

[...] [...] alia, the potential of mutual accountability to improve development practices, policies and actions.

This provocative and dangerous incident clearly violated the procedures established in United States Mission’s Note of 9 June 1995 aiming to eliminate potential clashes and conditions considered as interference with the performance of the functions of the Mission of Cuba.

The results of projects demonstrating low-cost alternatives to HCFCs in the foam sector had allowed the Executive Committee to examine potential replacements that appeared to be feasible solutions meeting the objective of a cost-effective, zero ozone-depleting potential and low-global-warming-potential replacement technology.

hearing, United States Commission on Security and Cooperation in Europe, 26 September 2006, at www.csce.gov. However, the U.S. has been supportive of backchannel discussions between NATO and the SCO on potential cooperation in Afghanistan.

The Ministers in order to promote the human rights of women expressed their resolve to take appropriate measures at the national, regional and international levels to improve the quality of life and achieve gender equality and empowerment of women, bearing in mind the inherent potential of women, through inter alia adopting proper socio- economic strategies and programmes and provisions of government services to all women particularly women with disabilities and women in rural areas, including access to health, education and justice services and strengthening family well-being.