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New energy and environmental technologies will undoubtedly drive growth in the future.

In brief, the combination of biofuel and biomass technologies offers greater environmental benefits and the two technologies complement each other.

Such centres undertake environmental research and development of environmentally sound technologies and provide information on environmental issues facing the country.

Investment in alternative energy technologies like solar and wind is no longer peddled on environmental grounds.

39. Truly global environmental information networks, especially for environmentally sound technologies, have yet to be developed.

7. Access to environmentally sound technologies was important to improve the environmental standard of developing countries.

5. Since environmental damages often became evident only after they were irreversible, early warning systems were needed to anticipate environmental degradation, along with mechanisms for assessing the local environmental effects of new technologies.

Environmentally sound technologies should be compatible with nationally determined socio economic, cultural and environmental priorities quot (para. 34.3).

Drawing on local knowledge could help in choosing technologies that are suitable from both an environmental and cultural perspective.

The Environmental Information Circulation and Monitoring System on the Internet (SISEI) programme is a capacity building programme for African countries on the use of information technologies for environmental information management.

We will need new technologies, behaviors, and ethics, supported by solid evidence, to reconcile further economic development with environmental sustainability.

In this context, relatively small investments in implementing existing pollution control technologies could have huge environmental and public health benefits.

We have strengthened the verification system through enhanced use of satellite imagery, environmental sampling and a variety of new technologies.

59. The lack of appropriate equipment and knowledge to assess the environmental impact of technologies has resulted, at times, in the transfer and application of technologies that do not protect the environment.

Export development of products, services and technologies related to environmental protection, clean technologies and production or utilization of non polluting, renewable sources of energy figure prominently in the activities of the subprogramme. 11B.

It is the repository of cutting edge sustainable technologies, pioneering research and development, world class management, and leadership in environmental sustainability.

The training courses, workshops and seminars have stressed the applications of space technologies for development and have included applications for environmental management.

Growing numbers of environmental investment funds are creating a favourable business climate for companies that research, produce and market environmentally sound technologies.

67. Several countries (Egypt and Malaysia, for example) are undertaking initiatives focused on solving pressing problems related to food security and environmental pollution through such things as science parks and centres for environmental technologies.

By maintaining high environmental standards, and promoting such standards among its trade partners, Europe can bolster the global market for clean energy technologies.

13. Wider access to military technologies, by making conflicts more destructive, can be expected to increase the economic and environmental impact of conflicts.

Bulgaria believed that the use of space technologies to address environmental questions should be, in general, a high priority of international space cooperation.

Rapid population growth, unchanged patterns of consumption and a lack of environmental technologies continue to be major obstacles to social and economic development.

In policy making, the technologies employed, the location of industry, skill requirements, environmental impact and linkages with other sectors were all key elements.

What steps might be taken to help facilitate a market based supply of technologies for adaptation? What synergy within the Convention and other multilateral environmental agreements might be pursued to enhance the work on technologies for adaptation?

We believe that the Project will make it possible to work out agreed approaches to prospective nuclear technologies from the standpoint of the economic efficiency and the environmental and non proliferation safety and security of such technologies.

(f) Also recognizes that in addition to promoting the transfer of environmentally sound technologies, the Commission should promote both the development of methodologies for and the assessment of the environmental, health, safety and social impacts of technologies.

In addition, participants established an Asian Regional Task Force on Risk Assessment for Natural Resources and Environmental Protection Using Remote Sensing and GIS Technologies.

These include, among other things, national cleaner technologies strategies, environmental management accounting, integrated water resources management, energy for sustainable development and social impacts of mining

In addition, the investor partner team can draw upon information and new technologies that promote energy efficiency, which often is accompanied by reduced environmental impact.

(b) The capacity to formulate market based economic incentives and policy instruments to reduce negative environmental impacts and encourage the adoption of clean production technologies

13. Lastly, Bulgaria recognized that the transfer of environmentally sound technologies and national capacity building in the sphere of environmental protection were of paramount importance for the incorporation of the environmental dimension into the overall process of development.

They will also help the establishment of national implementation plans and programmes to promote the introduction and diffusion of best available technologies best environmental practices and ESTs, such as non combustion technologies to eliminate POP wastes and POP contaminated equipment.

Funded entirely by Italy, the Centre offered assistance in the areas of pure and applied chemistry, earth, environmental and marine science technologies and high technology systems.

26. Most of FAO apos s programmes have built in sustainability criteria in their activities, including the use of technologies which minimize or avert environmental damage.

143. The United Nations system is working with Governments to find ways and means to secure environmentally sound and improved technologies for environmental protection and development.

Scarce scientific and technological resources must be properly allocated to serve domestic needs without losing sight of the possible detrimental environmental impact of the technologies used.

27. A perceptual shift in the private sector with regard to overall environmental responsibility is the most crucial factor in the promotion of environmentally sound technologies.

Environmental policies can contribute to enhancing growth, employment and living standards, for example through investments in appropriate technologies, energy efficiency improvements and cleaning up polluted areas.

(ii) New technologies, including information and communication technologies, mobility aids, devices, assistive technologies, suitable for persons with disabilities, giving priority to affordably priced technologies

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Communication technologies

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.