The recent increase in energy prices could result in a reduction of fossil fuel subsidies for the poor in developing countries, forcing households back down what might be termed the energy ladder to the heavier use of biomass fuels Long range transport of energy related air pollution poses several new challenges to policy makers.

New challenges confront us today.

The world is facing serious, new challenges today.

Nevertheless, great challenges still lie ahead for Afghanistan.

The abrogation of the Treaty on the Limitation of Anti Ballistic Missile Systems brings new challenges to strategic stability and the prevention of an arms race in outer space.

There are still challenges in improving recruitment throughout the organization.

Multiple negotiating processes have resulted in a complex and overlapping network of rules with different obligations. This creates challenges for the signatory countries, in particular the developing ones.

The challenges that remain for Afghanistan, however, are still considerable.

Disasters associated with natural hazards and vulnerability a development challenge

Recognizing that the use of new technologies and electronic media, including the Internet, poses new opportunities for and challenges to international cooperation in countering drug abuse and illicit production and trafficking,

New opportunity in Africa

It also includes new challenges like pandemics and climate change.

It also includes new challenges like pandemics and climate change.

But this stability will face new challenges in 2006.

Longstanding conflicts remain unresolved and complex new challenges are emerging.

Nonetheless, the alliance faces three major challenges in a new external environment.

The changing operational environment is posing new material challenges to existing peace operations.

The planning and implementation of these two events are running in parallel and present major challenges for the Independent Electoral Commission for Iraq.

Serious challenges in addressing issues related to violence against women in Afghanistan remain.

Natural disasters present particular challenges for the fulfilment of national responsibility as regards protection in the context of displacement.

It is now understood that globalization brings with it new challenges in competition law enforcement.

Innovations occur for different reasons a crisis, regime change, new leadership, opportunities or challenges.

Nations which were fighting each other 60 years ago are cooperating now and together confronting new challenges.

However, the already dire humanitarian situation, coupled with the tsunami, poses considerable new challenges for the incipient Government of Somalia.

It was because of new and serious challenges to the faith arising from the rapid transformation and secularization of Irish society.

But financial repression s winners commercial banks and SOEs will face new challenges.

While that phenomenon helps both the receiving and sending countries, it has also created new challenges.

Likewise, China has been posing new challenges to India, ratcheting up strategic pressure on multiple flanks, including by reviving old territorial claims.

Today, three major challenges for the international community require particularly urgent action, as described below.

In addition, globalization presents new challenges and problems for indigenous women in many parts of the world.

The emergence of new information and communication technologies (ICT) poses opportunities and challenges for the promotion of gender equality.

Parties are not limited to rehearsing before the Court the contentions made before the tribunal, but they are entitled to put forward new arguments.

The old asymmetries are fading away, and there are new distributional challenges at the core of global economy policy coordination.

There had been tangible progress on many fronts, but new challenges had also emerged, most of which stemmed from the age old problem of poverty.

Recent regulations and private sector standards in the food sector present new challenges for developing country exporters of horticultural products.

Nevertheless, many major challenges remain to be confronted in order for the United Nations to continue to respond effectively to evolving circumstances in the electoral field.

But then technology, demographics, and globalization brought dramatic new challenges that the neoclassical approach could not foresee.

Finally, in spite of the impressive progress, serious challenges remain before the goal of a stable, prosperous and fully democratic Iraq is achieved.

In general, the accessibility of ICTs for groups facing particular challenges, such as women and rural populations, also needed to be enhanced.

This movement the latest incarnation of the endless quest for human advancement poses new challenges to the relationship between science and society.

As the world faced new challenges, it was of paramount importance for Member States to pay their assessed contributions in full, on time and without conditions.

With regard to Asia and the Pacific, the revitalization of public administration has to address enormous poverty alleviation and human development challenges.

We can and must react positively, and we can do so by returning to basics and offering to Europe s nations, including the French and the Dutch, new challenges and a new spirit.

Liberal cycles are followed by conservative cycles, which give way to new liberal cycles, and so on.

6. Underlines the fact that there remain key challenges to implementing sustainable development and eradicating poverty in mountain regions as well as challenges in the areas of national involvement, international cooperation, support for partnerships and mobilization of financial resources, and against this background