For example, improving energy efficiency and material use efficiency has been undertaken in many sectors under cleaner production and environmental management initiatives.

The Programme must be strengthened in order to increase its efficiency in dealing with environmental problems.

For security and environmental reasons, their energy efficiency increased via a combination of taxes, higher consumer prices, and public education.

National governments introduce efficiency standards, taxes, and other policy instruments to improve the environmental performance of buildings, vehicles, and transport fuels.

In environmental economics, there is a basic principle, called the polluter pays principle. It is a matter of both equity and efficiency.

But if product quality, environmental protection, and economic efficiency are important as well, this state of affairs is little short of nightmarish.

His Government encouraged the promotion of national and international awareness on energy efficiency, and the adoption of an integrated approach to environmental sustainability.

The objectives and motivation of decentralization vary, but can include efficiency, local development, improved forest management, empowerment of local people, equity, and environmental security.

Immediate actions to optimize the implementation efficiency and impact of current DDT use, while minimizing human and environmental exposure and Diversification of intervention options to incorporate alternatives.

Such policies can have important long term impacts on efficiency and subsequently emissions, which in turn will influence the environmental sustainability of development and poverty alleviation efforts.

By focusing on the areas in which their modernization agendas overlap from education to public health to environmental protection they can identify ways to increase their human capital s efficiency.

There are three areas where transfer and effective use of environmentally sound technologies (ESTs) could be of particular importance over the next few years addressing domestic environmental problems such as urban pollution enhancing energy and material efficiency and complying with environmental requirements in export markets.

Incorporating water risk into McDonald s Environmental Scorecard is an important step in engaging suppliers not only on water efficiency, but also in overall stewardship, including cooperation with local watershed stakeholders.

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Efficiency

That allows us to have incredible efficiency and cost efficiency.

Another theme reflected in the outcome of the 2005 summit was that of institutional arrangements for increasing efficiency and coherence in the environmental activities carried out by the United Nations system.

This will promote specific environmental and energy related technologies, and stimulate investment and technology flows from developed countries to developing countries, while also enabling the implementation of clean technology and energy efficiency projects.

Staffing efficiency is only one measure of the cost efficiency of procurement performance.

The SED meeting next week in Beijing will focus on five areas integrity of trade and product safety balanced economic development, including financial sector reform energy efficiency and security environmental sustainability and bilateral investment.

Spectral efficiency, spectrum efficiency or bandwidth efficiency refers to the information rate that can be transmitted over a given bandwidth in a specific communication system.

For China, the issue largely concerns the design and implementation of the next stage of institutional reforms to sustain economic growth and efficiency, reduce social inequality, remove market distortions, address environmental deterioration, and combat corruption.

We had knowledge about the electromechanical efficiency and then we can calculate the aerodynamic efficiency.

Indeed, a fiscal covenant is urgently needed to guarantee accountability, transparency and efficiency in the use of public revenues together with net increases in social programmes that include education, health care, nutrition and sound environmental management.

Transaction costs and efficiency

Turn now to efficiency.

Energy conservation and efficiency

Fourthly, efficiency is essential.

The Plan encourages an accelerated shift towards sustainable consumption and production, where appropriate de linking economic growth and environmental degradation through improved efficiency and sustainability in the use of resources and reduced resource degradation, pollution and waste.

Environmental management This consists of environmental modification, environmental manipulation and measures to reduce human vector contact.

The section on Social and environmental responsibilities of the UNFCCC income and budget performance document could be extended to include an environmental budget and could be used to report these GHG emissions After a certain period of operation, should this initiative be reviewed to assess its efficiency and effectiveness and if so, what should be an appropriate timeframe?

Noting that, in addition to increasing the efficiency of energy production and use, expanding the use of new and renewable sources of energy and advanced clean energy technology offers options that could improve global and local environmental conditions,

The meeting comes at a delicate time, as a new group of leaders moves into China s senior positions, and as the agenda has been broadened to include food and product safety, energy efficiency and security, and environmental sustainability.

C. Transaction costs and efficiency

Environmental

If simply leading the world in output is the goal, the Chairman s vision has been resoundingly vindicated. But if product quality, environmental protection, and economic efficiency are important as well, this state of affairs is little short of nightmarish.

This crisis could help formulate a new approach increase access to reliable, affordable and renewable energy services for sustainable development, promote energy efficiency to make sure economic growth does not raise energy demand and environmental degradation, including climate change.

But improved efficiency has its limits.

Effectiveness is more important than efficiency.

It does so with remarkable efficiency.

Measures taken to improve judicial efficiency

Environmental activities

Environmental concerns

Environmental Convention

Environmental monitoring