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

Environmental policy is clearly one.

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To achieve this, it opted for a mixture of policy instruments.

The closer to zero they fall, the more problematic monetary policy becomes. The policy instruments no longer work.

EU environmental policy has thus become a core area of European politics.

A third answer is that policy instruments are simply ineffective in today s conditions.

exchange rate and trade policies, or even the complete set of fiscal policy instruments.

It also addressed the issue of post conflict reconstruction in cases of environmental damage and stressed the imperative of developing new, binding international legal instruments to ensure environmental integrity during armed conflict.

The real issues, in any case, are distributional and reflect a shortage of policy instruments.

The emerging economies generally have the policy instruments, balance sheets, and expertise to respond effectively.

Meanwhile, Gazprom, one of Russia s key foreign policy instruments, is probably the world s most mismanaged corporation.

But Europe s leadership in the environmental field cannot be sustained without the right policy framework.

(4) A technical and environmental GIS database working towards informed policy decisions and sustainable development

14.43 The Division of Environmental Policy Implementation is responsible for the implementation of this subprogramme.

Central banks mystique, enigmatic policy instruments, and virtually unconstrained access to the printing press undoubtedly captivate some.

This has been lacking in the past, as the IMF had insufficient instruments to enforce policy action.

Key instruments mentioned by experts related to science, innovation and technology policies, as well as FDI policy.

To achieve targets, increased investments in environmental management need to be accompanied by broad policy reforms.

Myanmar had enacted a national environmental policy upon which it was relying to attain sustainable development.

In principle, the answer is straightforward. If a central bank has two policy targets, then it needs two instruments monetary policy to influence aggregate demand, and regulatory policy to limit financial risks.

There is often a lack of synergy between policy (such as climate change policy) goals developed under environmental ministries and policies developed under other ministries.

At the time, Environmental Policy was a bipartisan issue and the efforts of the United States of America helped spark countries around the world to create environmental policies.

Switzerland may wish to consider policy and regulatory instruments that will ensure progress in achieving the phase out

Many countries report action to improve the use of economic and policy instruments to promote sustainable forest management.

The field encompasses study in basic principles of ecology and environmental science, as well as associated subjects such as ethics, geography, policy, politics, law, economics, philosophy, environmental sociology and environmental justice, planning, pollution control and natural resource management.

The lack of appropriate resources and know how related to environmental assessment leads to sub optimal decision making based on incomplete or inconsistent information about the state of the environmental resources and the impact of environmental policy on development.

The objective is to review policy instruments for stimulating the diffusion of ESTs and promoting environmentally sound technological development.

Increased technical capacity to incorporate an environmental dimension into the design of economic policies and the innovative use of economic instruments in environmental management, including a better understanding of the uneven effects of such policies on men and women.

The programme of work will be implemented through seven subprogrammes, namely (a) environmental assessment and early warning (b) policy development and law (c) policy implementation (d) technology, industry and economics (e) regional cooperation and representation (f) environmental conventions and (g) communications and public information.

Terrorism cannot be defeated by arms alone. Indeed, other instruments of policy, including intelligence, police work and diplomacy, are likely to play a larger part in any effective policy.

Terrorism cannot be defeated by arms alone. Indeed, other instruments of policy, including intelligence, police work and diplomacy, are likely to play a larger part in any effective policy.

Economic policy has also contributed to their current condition as trade agreements and an over valued dollar promoted auto imports, and incoherent energy and environmental policy stifled innovation.

(e) Governance for sustainable development must be improved through institutional reforms, legal instruments, national and regional agreements and the integration of social, economic and environmental agendas.

These instruments are necessary to ensure that concrete CRIC and CST decisions lead to concrete specific activities contributing to environmental protection, poverty eradication and food security.

Payment by Results (PbR) is type of public policy instruments where payments are contingent on the independent verification of results.

Only producing bio fuels without the use of additional land is justifiable in terms of environmental and social policy.

The latest phase in environmental policy in the developed countries focuses on products instead of on the production processes.

Before it joined the World Trade Organization in 2001, China had a wider range of policy instruments for achieving this end.

Chapter I describes different types of bilateral, regional, plurilateral and multilateral cooperation instruments with a bearing on competition law and policy.

As the ongoing recession exhausts the traditional instruments of monetary policy, central banks are opting for new rounds of quantitative easing (QE).

Claims that our leadership, institutions, analyses, or policy instruments are inadequate to the task at hand surely contain a kernel of truth.

Among general policy instruments, some experts mentioned FDI liberalization and the strengthening of the national science and technology base, including research institutions.

Such an approach would not require the creation of any new instruments, only a different approach to design and implementation of policy.

The two most important policy instruments are the Working Hours (Adjustment) Act (July 2000) and the Work and Care Act (December 2001).