The 2012 Environmental Performance Index ranks Latvia second, after Switzerland, based on the environmental performance of the country's policies.

The 2012 Environmental Performance Index put Norway in third place, based on the environmental performance of the country's policies.

This statement outlines environmental performance of the organization as well as its environmental objectives.

As part of the Secretariat's effort to move towards performance based contracts, quantifiable performance criteria are being included in new service contracts.

b. Continue to develop criteria for the classification and labelling of environmental terrestrial hazards

The new challenge currently facing the world was to go beyond short term environmental performance and to strive for environmental sustainability.

We will continue to support a performance review of regional fisheries management organizations based on objective criteria.

Along with changing the criteria of performance evaluations, the organization itself underwent a change in values and culture.

Criteria based assessments, in contrast, describe conditions or parameters against which potential performance and capacity can be gauged.

It was also reviewed in the IPCS Environmental Health Criteria Document (Chrysotile Asbestos, EHC 203) published in 1998.

Performance criteria are necessary to monitor the management and administration of the Agency's health, education and social service facilities.

In a separate activity, the Federal Performance Project, the capacity of large federal agencies was analysed using the criteria.

Criteria based approaches share a common assumption that organizations meeting key elements of critical criteria have the capacity to be effective and high performing, even if no specific performance measures are analysed.

ISAR noted that an enterprise's environmental performance could affect its financial health and hence its sustainability.

Clean technology is a concept of relative environmental performance, which is subject to change over time.

UNDP should establish a task force to produce a clear, realistic plan for adding RCA performance criteria and adjusting procedures.

The Government Performance Project (GPP) of the United States provides an interesting example of a criteria based approach in government.

It should also be noted that criteria based systems such as the Government Performance Project do not assume that spending more money on systems necessarily improves their content and capacity building performance.

This idea of capacity as a platform for performance is central to the rationale for capacity assessment (although the term used here is capacity for performance, the criteria based approach can be applied to other dimensions of performance, such as quality, as well).

Under the Millennium Challenge Account, attainment of performance criteria by countries receiving grants replaces the debt service of traditional bilateral loan assistance.

Expanded measurement of the dimensions of economic, social, and environmental performance is necessary to broaden awareness of sustainability issues.

The net effect of this strategy would be to increase the legitimacy of the foundations, principles, quality parameters and performance criteria of public administration.

Above all, a system needs to be established to monitor officials performance in environmental as well as in economic terms.

Use of criteria such as average cost and total number of services delivered formed the initial basis for performance measurement, as undertaken by traditional systems.

The group took the view that the board should disclose its policy and performance in connection with environmental and social responsibility and the impact of this policy and performance on the firm's sustainability.

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

Chrysotile asbestos was included as a subject of an IPCS Environmental Health Criteria document (Asbestos and other Natural Mineral Fibres, EHC 53) published in 1986.

Disclosure should be comprehensive to demonstrate to shareholders and other stakeholders whether remuneration is tied to the company's long term performance as measured by recognized criteria.

It was further suggested that an assessment of the criteria required in other multilateral environmental agreements should be made to determine their applicability under the Rotterdam Convention.

The proportion of such enterprises that have been clearly recognized as complying with predetermined criteria of environmental good practice, such as participation in ecolabels programmes, is very low.

We need a new standard that requires companies to report not just their financial metrics, but also their performance on social, developmental, and environmental issues.

In Lithuania, a cleaner production programme is being implemented with support from the Norwegian Government to improve environmental performance, competitiveness and regulatory compliance of industry.

That is, an increase in the willingness to lend tends to increase the value of the collateral, and also improves the borrowers performance, thereby encouraging a relaxation of credit criteria.

The Lao People's Democratic Republic has a proven track record for macroeconomic performance and meets the eligibility criteria, but the authorities have not availed themselves of HIPC debt relief.5

Several submissions affirmed that comments and deliberations at CRIC meetings focused appropriately on the modalities, structure and criteria of the implementation review process in order to ensure its efficient performance.

The problem of relative environmental performance could be overcome either by setting up a proper review mechanism or by including entire plants or technologies in the list.

Criteria include

Second, subparagraph 31 (ii) of the Doha Ministerial Declaration covers procedures for regular information exchange between multilateral environmental agreement secretariats and the relevant WTO committees and the criteria for granting of observer status.

C. Admissibility criteria

D. Admissibility criteria

Criteria for using force

But former Premier Wen Jiabao rightly described this impressive growth performance as unstable, unbalanced, uncoordinated, and unsustainable, highlighting the many economic, social, and environmental costs and challenges that have accompanied it.

And all of a sudden we're kind of moving away, and we're separating the skin from the body, and that's going to lead to broader performance criteria, which I'm going to talk about in a minute.

Particular efforts have been made to make the frameworks more concrete, streamlined and reader friendly by applying standard criteria to the performance information provided and by presenting the addendum to the present report in landscape format.

In addition to these internal (national) criteria, the UK would have to meet the European Union's economic convergence criteria (Maastricht criteria), before being allowed to adopt the euro.