Instead, it relies on value at risk (VaR) measures that link risk to standard notions of short term market volatility.

Saving elephants in perils in Zambia

Specific health sector measures included vaccination and chemical prevention measures, and monitoring of risk groups, especially in exposed areas.

The San Francisco garter snake ( Thamnophis sirtalis tetrataenia ), however, is an endangered subspecies and has been on the endangered list since 1969.

The international community has a lot at stake in the Congo.

In 1982, Jordan requested that it be added to the List of World Heritage in Danger.

In 2013, the World Heritage Committee added East Rennell to the List of World Heritage in Danger because of the threat of logging activities to the site's outstanding universal value.

Extra safety measures like solar fences, concrete posts and ditches have been dug up around vulnerable communities.

The Okapi Wildlife Reserve was added to the list of world heritage sites in danger in 1997.

d) health educational activity for the entire population in the Republic of Macedonia, especially for endangered population groups.

Will there be contagion to vulnerable countries in Europe and elsewhere? Not just yet.

So risk managers in banks applied the techniques of probability analysis to value at risk calculations, without asking whether samples of recent events really carried strong inferences for the probable distribution of future events.

And other recent stories have looked at single, flagship species, if you will, that are at risk in the ocean as a way of talking about other threats.

The human right to water is just one of the rights at risk in a climate constrained world.

Losing a language is losing a whole culture, a way of thinking. It happens with most languages which are in danger, not only with us.

(f) Requests the responsible United Nations bodies urgently to study the possibility of establishing an independent organization for the protection of the endangered Somali coastline

Such a system would enable countries at risk to exchange information on disaster forecasts and to undertake a joint response to natural disasters.

A special emphasis was made on the risk groups among women and girls, which is the consequence of their highly risky behavior and bad habits.

(c) Development of a proposal for a pilot study comparing the use of desertification EWSs in selected risk areas.

We will have to break through that vicious circle of violence on the ground, talks in jeopardy, renewed violence, breakdowns in talks and so on.

Disagreements about how to re regulate the financial markets are deep, owing to countless taboos and the huge interests at stake.

Imposing the same objectives on people who would otherwise opt for different ones creates a political cost and weakens both public understanding of the issues at stake and public acceptance of the outcome.

Iraq referred especially to contamination of water from urban settlements located within the catchment areas of highly vulnerable springs which did not have appropriate connections to sewerage networks.

Street level interventions and prevention measures for groups at risk nevertheless require significant expansion to actually address the full dimension of the problem.

The situation of these vulnerable young people must be improved as a critical matter of human resource investment for development.

Finally, monitoring and warning systems should be designed with the intent of serving to alert at risk populations about all major hazards in their area, and not exclusively about tsunamis and earthquakes.

Unfortunately, instead of reaching out to endangered nations like Ukraine, the EU beacon remains dark and its leaders silent.

Goldman Sachs, for example, has made a point of publicly buying endangered assets in its Global Equities Opportunity Fund.

However, recent developments, such as the construction of skyscrapers nearby, have pushed the Tower towards being added to the United Nations' Heritage in Danger List.

The most commonly discussed motivation for weaponizing space within the United States, i.e., to protect vulnerable US space assets, is unfounded in Wright's view.

Moreover, German Chancellor Angela Merkel took the liberty of pondering whether imperiled states should be excluded from the eurozone.

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An indigenous expert from Canada reported on a lack of attention to the promotion of and protection of indigenous traditional knowledge in biodiversity related legislation dealing with species at risk.

What have we done and have we done everything to provide the sectors at risk, in particular young people, who comprise half the new cases of infection, with the tools, information and resources they need to protect themselves?

This is often accompanied by one of the above types of advocacy groups filing an Amicus curiae if the cause at stake serves the interests of both the legal defense fund and the other advocacy groups.

Such programmes are important however, an integrated approach is needed to tackle the impact of gender inequality, while at the same time to reach specific risk groups.

Reports have documented that longline fishing is one of the main threats to the survival of the highly endangered Black footed albatross in the Pacific.

1.114 To address the increased burden of mental and psychological problems among the refugee population by development of multidisciplinary community based programmes focusing on prevention and targeting at risk groups.

The possibility of restructuring balances the interests of stakeholders and uses legal protections to help potentially risky enterprises prevent or avoid bankruptcy if a bailout is worthwhile or possible.

A substantial immediate haircut on the sovereign debt of the vulnerable eurozone countries would be so destructive that it would set off a new round of bank panics.

To encourage the United Nations to work with Member States and relevant international, regional and subregional organizations to identify and share best practices to prevent terrorist attacks on particularly vulnerable targets.

With regard to the International Strategy for Disaster Reduction, the country was developing remote sensing capacities to help identify hazard vulnerability and risk populations and, ultimately, reduce the disaster impact.

Ethnic Kachin oppose the dam not only because it puts lives at risk, but also because it endangers the historically valuable Irrawaddy River, the KSDP chairman said.

The European Council of Ministers had to promise hundreds of billions of euros to its financially imperiled member countries, even though the European economy as a whole is not really in crisis.

Irish women are certainly right to wonder anew if next time it will be they who are endangered by a religious viewpoint that has nothing to do with their medical needs.