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If all garbage collectors in Hong Kong stop working for three days,

Delegates noted that international food commodity

For Canada, those covered the terminal phase-out management plan for ODS in the refrigeration and air-conditioning sector in Saint Lucia and the terminal phase-out management plan for Annex A Group I substances in Uruguay; for Italy, the umbrella

These include: a deep-sea port being constructed on the Indian Ocean near the Rakhine State capital of

This progress in research into the effects of UV changes in ecosystems would contribute to the assessment of how changes in solar UV radiation would affect

(d) Within the national context, INDRHI established a centre for water research (Center for Irrigation Research and Technology, CITAR) which is of a purely national scope and does not possess a legal personality, to lay the basis for a

These constraints include the diversion of food commodities to the production of biofuels and biodiesel, the diversion of agricultural land to the production of biofuel crops, lower levels of investments in the agricultural sector and in

With a focus on Africa, UNESCO and WMO have initiated a partnership to enhance this understanding and are collaborating with governments, indigenous peoples and regional partners in Africa to understand how climate service providers can collaborate with holders of traditional knowledge to provide information that would enable local communities to make appropriate decisions for

(a) The project proposes steam for the treatment of

The NOU developed various activities such as: total CFC phase-out, implementation of the licensing and quota system, review of applicable laws, training of customs inspectors and technicians of the refrigeration air-conditioning (RAC) sectors, random inspections have been carried out to ODS shipments at ports, ODS consumption reports have been timely filed to the secretariats, purchased pure and combination gases equipment for the customs laboratory, ODS importers coordinated and kept informed, including

In developed countries, innovation in value addition is converging on convenience foods and a wider range of

The forward-looking statements involve risks and uncertainties that could contribute to such differences including difficulties in overcoming the network installation and operational challenges relating to any specific customer or geographical area; factors affecting actual product performance in specific deployments, which could result in lower throughput, range, and other performance criteria than achieved

The representative of the Secretariat introduced document UNEP/OzL.Pro/ExCom/56/11, which consisted of progress reports on the implementation of: the national CFC phase-out plan in Argentina, the TPMP in Bhutan, the accelerated phase-out of CFCs and halons in China, the NPP for CFCs and halons in Colombia, the verification audit report of the terminal CFC phase-out management plan in Croatia, the TPMP in Ghana, the

The lack of a precise definition has caused many studies to offer a broad interpretation and consider all types of non-conventional forms of finance under the rubric of innovative development financing, ranging from the mechanisms mentioned earlier, such as securitization of ODA commitments, international taxes and new SDR allocations, to all kinds of “other innovations”, such as local currency bonds and currency hedges, gross domestic product (GDP)-linked bonds,

In addition to sea-level rise and food insecurity, what threats to international peace and security posed