Improvement in US performance on climate change will have to come from innovation and increased energy efficiency.

A comprehensive approach strategy was extended to all areas of health care, with subsequent improvement in the health care indicators and improvement in health care efficiency and cost.

They also promised to cooperate on development of renewable energy, improvement of energy efficiency, and denuclearization of North Korea.

When it has a scarce resource that it wants to turn into a desirable outcome, it thinks in terms of efficiency.

Information technology is not a solution by itself, but it can serve as a tool for the improvement of administrative processes, procedures and efficiency.

Standard methods continue to emphasize labor efficiency even though that resource now constitutes a (very) small part of cost in most cases.

(k) Resource efficiency To minimize the use of scarce and non renewable resources in the development and operation of tourism facilities and services

The motives were largely similar across regions and were dependent on the types of OFDI (market seeking, efficiency seeking, resource seeking, asset augmenting).

So I think the Eden Project is a fairly good example of how ideas from biology can lead to radical increases in resource efficiency delivering the same function, but with a fraction of the resource input.

11. Recognizes that strengthening the role and capacity of the United Nations development system to assist countries in achieving their development goals requires continuing improvement in its effectiveness, efficiency, coherence and impact, along with a significant increase in resources and an expansion of its resource base on a continuous, more predictable and assured basis

13. Recognizes that strengthening the role and capacity of the United Nations development system to assist countries in achieving their development goals requires continuing improvement in its effectiveness, efficiency, coherence and impact, along with a significant increase in resources and an expansion of its resource base on a continuous, more predictable and assured basis

Such policies and institutional improvements increase productivity, promote competition, facilitate specialization, enhance the efficiency of resource allocation, protect the environment, and reduce risks and uncertainties.

Increase organizational efficiency Further improvement of programmatic and operational performance at the country level requires UNFPA to strengthen its presence and support for countries at the regional level.

The economic transition would help maintain and strengthen Europe s competitiveness in a global economy that is increasingly competing on the basis of sustainability and resource efficiency.

Relentless efficiency gains in agriculture and resource extraction pushed down prices for commodities, especially during the 1980 s and 1990 s. With few exceptions, countries that focused on commodity exports performed dismally, whereas many resource poor Asian countries raced ahead.

(i) At the United Nations global headquarters level, member state expectations are high for rationalization of procurement and human resource management, increased administrative efficiency and cost reductions.

The programme also aims to increase resource efficiency and better management by introducing the concept of cleaner production in participating industrial companies and to strengthen the capacity of local partners.

(iv) To stimulate the development and diffusion of technologies designed to increase the efficiency of resource use or reduce the impacts of drivers such as climate change and nutrient loading

Companies and investors are hedging their bets by taking a few resource efficiency measures and investing in some low carbon assets, but leaving their high carbon portfolios and activities largely intact.

1.144 To improve the efficiency and effectiveness of service delivery to Special Hardship Case (SHC) families through reduction in social worker case loads, systematic in service training and the improvement of overall working conditions.

Through new energy efficiency initiatives, Singapore aimed to reduce up to 190,000 tonnes of carbon dioxide emissions by 2012 and help achieve a 25 per cent improvement in carbon intensity between 1990 and 2012.

Ensuring that all budgets are reviewed by people s congresses at various levels would enhance resource efficiency by reducing fiscal competition between the central and local governments as well as among local governments.

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Efficiency

25. Stresses the need for continuous overall improvement in the effectiveness, efficiency, management and impact of the United Nations system in delivering its development assistance, and welcomes steps that have been taken to that end

The network and telecommunication resource requirements for the new building will be included in the proposed programme budget for the biennium 2008 2009 under the section entitled Construction, alteration, improvement and major maintenance.

That allows us to have incredible efficiency and cost efficiency.

There is, of course, wide variation in the nature and motives of FDI from different regions of the developing world, with important examples of natural resource seeking, market seeking and efficiency seeking FDI.

Review of its agenda and the improvement of its working methods are other ways to enhance the General Assembly's role, authority, effectiveness and efficiency as the chief deliberative, policymaking and representative organ of the United Nations.

Overall, there has been an increase in the use of SSC by the United Nations development system, with a focus on institution building and networking, information support, resource mobilization and the improvement of management capacities.

Business process improvement A business process improvement (BPI) typically involves six steps 1.

women's health improvement.

Areas for improvement

Areas for improvement

Improvement of health

Measures for improvement

And if you go over the next 15 years or so to a blended wing body, kind of a flying wing with internal engines, then you get about a factor three efficiency improvement at comparable or lower cost.

The reforms carried out under the leadership of the Director General were conducive to further improvement of the Organization's efficiency and the continued expansion of technical cooperation coverage with a view to providing better services to Member States.

Definition of energy efficiency improvement project activities The Executive Board agreed to draw up an indicative list of eligible project activities sectors, as proposed in the attachment to annex 2 of the annotated agenda of its third meeting.

The objective of the Task Force is centred on the improvement of the efficiency, quality and consistency of international data production and dissemination, while reducing the national authorities' response burden and avoiding duplication of work in international organizations.

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

Type (ii) project activities energy efficiency improvement project activities which reduce energy consumption, on the supply and or demand side, by up to the equivalent of 15 gigawatt hours per year (decision 17 CP.7, paragraph 6 (c) (ii))

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.

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.

One of the limitations of this approach for sound public administration is that profit maximization and efficiency of resource use are essential but not sufficient with respect to promoting and protecting public goods, such as the environment.