There would, of course, be costs.

In addition, there are social costs to consider.

But others, such as wind, solar, and geothermal, are in some circumstances already cost competitive or nearly cost competitive with fossil fuels.

While consolidation may imply some short term costs, especially in a recession, the long term costs of delay are large.

IQWiG is regarded with skepticism by some doctors in Germany, being seen merely as a mechanism to reduce costs.

But these people s activities also impose costs on the rest of us.

However, one positive step was the recent representation agreement between UNIDO and UNDP.

The prohibitive costs of clean technology, and in some cases political, cultural and social constraints, have also hindered implementation of measures.

Their corrections may also have costs a business slump and a further loss of innovation.

In that connection, some participants stressed the need to cover costs encountered by the requested State.

The net effect for Denmark was found to be a small cost , not benefit.

Typical examples of the financial needs reported by Parties are given in box 2 below.

In the face of these costs, the overblown and sometimes clearly dishonest claims about the war are an obscenity.

In some instances, it will be necessary to devise a form of cost sharing mechanism to assure the sustainability of the software.

The controls will impose few costs on markets (though they may involve some administrative costs for the government).

While the agricultural sector has shown some productivity gains since 2000, high logistics costs have constrained its impact.

And some Europeans worried that the Fund was taking sides in a polarized intra European dispute about how the costs of the financial crisis should be shared.

The Inspectors believe that a common payroll system is not only technically feasible but also financially desirable, though it is not a simple task.

In these circumstances, the additional costs of debt service easily outweigh any gains that might come from some measure of fiscal relaxation.

They tend to invest within the Asian region, focusing primarily on such low cost destinations as China, Indonesia, Malaysia, Thailand and Viet Nam.

Some proposed climate engineering technologies in particular, marine cloud whitening technology could be cheap, fast, and effective.

There remains some concern about the acceptability of some of the fuse types and also the costs associated with moving to multi fuse technologies.

Third, despite some significant improvements, major deficiencies in the coverage and quality of infrastructure are clearly affecting competitiveness and increasing costs.

(b) To achieve cost savings

The first obstacle is cost.

Are Security Council missions too expensive? Some participants thought they were and argued for reducing the number of participants when possible.

Some experts concluded that cost advantages are of relatively low importance as a driver for developing country TNCs' R D investments abroad.

With regard to the financial arrangements, it will be recalled that in accordance with the practice followed on the occasion of previous multilateral disarmament conferences, and as reflected in the Rules of Procedure, the costs of such conferences, including those pertaining to preparatory meetings, would be shared among the States Parties participating in the conferences, based upon the United Nations scale of assessment pro rated to take into account the number of

Subject to the States Parties' approval of the estimated costs and cost sharing formula, assessment notices will be prepared based on the overall estimated costs and applicable cost sharing formula.

But there remain about 54 million individuals who are not formally insured, and some insured individuals still face the risk of financially ruinous medical costs if they have very expensive medical treatment.

As indicated in section IV above, prior to 16 June 1993 the financing of the administrative and logistic costs of the Force, as well as certain extra and extraordinary costs incurred by troop contributing Governments, which were borne by the Organization, were dependent entirely on voluntary contributions from Governments.

Protests by some parties that could not afford the high cost of TV spots and billboards mirror similar complaints in the US.

Some members noted with appreciation the deployment of UN Habitat programme managers as a cost effective means of integrating human settlements issues into the United Nations country programme.

The actual costs will be determined after the closure of the sessions and completion of related work, with all relevant expenditures recorded in the accounts.

To the extent that some of the lower cost is rebated to their clients, even industrial firms in Germany enjoy a lower cost of capital, giving them an unfair advantage vis à vis their European competitors.

Total cost 133 300

Administrative costs

Indeed, major cost differences remain.

(d) Inflation and other cost adjustments.

Yet practical solutions are at hand, because simple and low cost technologies can address specific problems.

This would not only eliminate some of the unnecessary costs of government bailouts, but would also reduce their incidence.

For example, bosses usually give preference to men in some posts, but they also do so because of certain cost factors, such as those associated with maternity leave.

OIOS observed that in some instances, requests from HOAs could not be fulfilled for reasons such as priority access and unresolved cost recovery arrangements.

The additional costs are covered by the provision of cost increases included in UNIDO's approved programme and budget estimates for the 2004 2005 biennium.

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