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

Objective 4. Improve overall performance.

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.

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.

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

Even here, foreign based domestic competitors could improve performance.

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

It will significantly improve investment performance by streamlining and organizing the daily workflow.

Just as adherence to rules can improve the performance of emergency room personnel, so due process and constitutionalism can improve the performance, especially in a crisis, of law enforcement officers and national security policymakers.

An example could be that a software upgrade might improve system performance, but the business case is that better performance would improve customer satisfaction, require less task processing time, or reduce system maintenance costs.

Some athletes have used colostrum in an attempt to improve their performance decrease recovery time, and prevent sickness during peak performance levels.

However, consistent growth in physical investment is expected to improve its 2005 performance moderately.

It can be used by any entity to evaluate impact on stakeholders, identify ways to improve performance, and enhance the performance of investments.

The need can be a desire to improve current performance or to correct a deficiency.

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.

And basically, by controlling the genes, you can control multiple materials to improve your device performance.

5. Recognizes that measures to improve management capacity and performance among senior staff are highly desirable

A performance appraisal system should also be integrated into results based budgeting to improve its implementation.

A slow but gradual positive trend is reflected in the region's ability to improve trade performance.

However, the Secretariat has instituted measures to improve compliance and facilitate comprehensive vendor performance monitoring and reporting.

The consistency of the environmental and economic information of SNA add considerable value to both the environmental and economic information and improve the quality of both statistics.

Doing so would add to the global recovery, improve long term environmental sustainability, and accelerate economic development.

To improve and accomplish the environmental legislation, by increasing the fiscalization, control and monitoring of the environment.

It fosters a culture of transparency and accountability and of striving to improve the performance of UNIDO's activities.

This calls for developing countries to improve performance and developed countries to fulfil their promises to increase aid.

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

To improve environmental public policies, in contrast with the current economic model, in all of the productive sectors.

The REF is ready to help national education authorities across the EU improve their performance in educating Roma children.

The analytical features of the data warehouse system will improve the performance of the management of the Fund's investments.

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

Many Governments have pledged to bring education to indigenous peoples and communities, and to improve their performance in this area.

A formal performance management system involving regular evaluation of programme impact should be put in place to improve output delivery.

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.

Since the early 1990s, a series of legal and institutional reforms have been set in motion to improve environmental sustainability.

The action plans were also expected to improve the interaction of climate change actions with those on other environmental issues.

Just as a student can improve his grades by studying or an athlete can improve his performance by practicing, so you can change many of the numbers that define your health prospects.

At maturity level 5, processes are concerned with addressing statistical common causes of process variation and changing the process (for example, to shift the mean of the process performance) to improve process performance.

They may strive to improve their performance, but often they do so for its own sake, for the sense of achievement.

mpg123's Assembly code is optimized with SIMD instructions to improve the performance of the iDCT part of the MPEG decoding.

Objective To improve the design, efficiency and effectiveness of UNIDO services, and to meet accountability requirements on project and programme performance.

It would also include efforts to improve our performance in fixing the so called weak links in the nuclear safety chain.

C. Some measures to improve the overall performance of the United Nations system at the country level (JIU REP 2005 2)

In paragraph 64, the Board reiterated its recommendation that UNU identify measurable and quantifiable targets, accomplishments and performance indicators in order to improve the performance measurement process, reflect the real performance of projects and programmes and enable the linking of physical accomplishments with financial expenditures.