Urges States, in order to achieve a significant and measurable reduction of drug abuse by 2008

10. Urges States, in order to achieve a significant and measurable reduction of drug abuse by 2008

12. Urges States, in order to achieve a significant and measurable reduction of drug abuse by 2008

5. Urges States, in order to achieve a significant and measurable reduction of drug abuse by 2008

6. Urges States, in order to achieve a significant and measurable reduction of drug abuse by 2008

10. Urges States, in order to achieve a significant and measurable reduction of drug abuse by 2008

Economic development is the best way indeed, the only way to achieve sustainable poverty reduction. It creates a virtuous circle.

be possible to achieve the targets for reduction of infant malnutrition, gender equality in primary education, and reduction of infant and under 5 mortality rates.

It highlighted the importance of handling vulnerability to achieve a sustainable reduction in poverty in line with the first Millennium Development Goal.

We are pleased to have been able to achieve a 21 per cent reduction in opium poppy cultivation in the current year.

In order to achieve this goal, a health development strategy for Bosnia and Herzegovina is currently being developed as a part of the Poverty Reduction Strategy Paper.

The Brussels Programme of Action provided a comprehensive framework for instituting partnerships with LDCs so as to achieve poverty reduction, economic growth and sustainable development.

The 13 practical steps adopted at the 2000 Conference should be taken to achieve a verifiable and irreversible reduction in nuclear weapons in the world.

There is no inconsistency between a progressive, balanced deficit reduction plan and lowering the corporate tax rate. Of all taxes, corporate taxes are the most harmful to economic growth without which meaningful deficit reduction is far more difficult to achieve.

The secretariat is constituted of representatives of relevant ministries and institutions, which are in the process of preparing a 10 year plan of action to achieve disaster risk reduction.

We also believe that a drastic reduction in its agenda and focusing it on the most important problems of the day are the most appropriate way to achieve that objective.

The CDM, however, allows an industrialized country to achieve part of its reductions by financing cheaper reduction opportunities in a developing country, thus lowering the carbon intensity of economic growth there.

Concerned by the continued loss of biological diversity, and acknowledging that an unprecedented effort would be needed to achieve by 2010 a significant reduction in the rate of loss of biological diversity,

Concerned by the continued loss of biological diversity, and acknowledging that an unprecedented effort would be needed to achieve by 2010 a significant reduction in the rate of loss of biological diversity,

Concerned by the continued loss of biological diversity, and acknowledging that an unprecedented effort would be needed to achieve by 2010 a significant reduction in the rate of loss of biological diversity,

4. Also recognizes that much needs to be done to achieve the objectives of the New Partnership, particularly with regard to economic growth and poverty reduction

Overcoming Puerto Rico s crisis will require restoring growth, implementing a sustainable fiscal policy, and debt restructuring. Accomplishing the first of these would, together with reduction of excessive government expenditures, help to achieve the second.

(a) Poverty reduction

(a) Risk reduction

The end of the cold war and a new security situation have made it possible for us to achieve a substantial reduction in nuclear weapons and to aspire to the complete prohibition and thorough destruction of such weapons.

So lower levels of social expenditure could involve only a relatively small increase in inequality and social conflict. Moreover, if Europeans target social expenditure better, they might achieve a greater reduction in inequality with a lower level of social transfers.

We should define specific targets and strengthen disaster reduction activities as appropriate to respective circumstances and capacities in a bid to achieve the desired global outcome and strategic goals set in the Hyogo Framework for Action .

a Excluding arrears reduction.

To reverse these trends, all Governments should take steps, individually and collectively, to implement the Convention on Biological Diversity8 and the Johannesburg commitment to achieve a significant reduction in the rate of loss of biodiversity by 2010.9

The global arms reduction process should also include a reduction in non strategic nuclear arsenals.

In order to achieve the Millennium Development Goals, it is essential that poverty reduction interventions focus on the rural poor and that significant investments be made in rural and agricultural development.

Saddled with debt, reparations and oil capacity constraints, and with the security situation highly uncertain, Iraq has yet to achieve self sustaining economic growth despite the reduction in Paris Club debt.

An additional area needing special attention is the integration of chemicals management in the broader development agenda, including efforts to achieve the Millennium Development Goals and contribute to Poverty Reduction Strategies.

12. Notes all the regional and subregional initiatives developed in order to achieve disaster risk reduction, and reiterates the need to further develop regional initiatives and risk reduction capacities of regional mechanisms where they exist and to strengthen them and encourage the use and sharing of all existing tools

12. Welcomes the regional and subregional initiatives developed in order to achieve disaster risk reduction, and reiterates the need to further develop regional initiatives and risk reduction capacities of regional mechanisms where they exist and to strengthen them and encourage the use and sharing of all existing tools

Recalling the commitment of the World Summit on Sustainable Development to a more effective and coherent implementation of the three objectives of the Convention, and the target to achieve by 2010 a significant reduction in the current rate of loss of biodiversity,

22.10 The subprogramme will follow a twofold strategy to achieve its objective concurrent with the focus of activities with the two participating organizations, namely, the United Nations International Strategy for Disaster Reduction and the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP).

The Asian Disaster Reduction Centre is a specialized organization for disaster reduction based in Kobe, Japan.

For their part, the Governments of African countries, who have the primary responsibility for their own development, are implementing national poverty reduction strategies in keeping with the need to achieve the MDGs.

Debt reduction, either through stock of debt reduction or debt service reduction based on a concessional rescheduling, will continue to be considered only in exceptional cases.

9. Takes note of all the regional and subregional initiatives developed in order to achieve disaster risk reduction, reiterates the need to develop regional initiatives and risk reduction capacities of regional mechanisms and to strengthen them, wherever they exist, and encourages the use and sharing of all the existing tools

A reduction in requirements is estimated in the amount of 2,660,100, which reflects a reduction of 1,126,700 with respect to the general insurance policy, and a reduction of 1,533,400 with respect to the insurance for terrorism acts.

Emphasizing the multisectoral, interdisciplinary and cross cutting nature of natural disaster reduction, and stressing that continued interaction, cooperation and partnerships among the institutions concerned are considered essential to achieve jointly agreed objectives and priorities,

C. A joint response to poverty reduction

In Kyoto, we were promised a 7 reduction in world emissions, but will probably achieve only 0.4 . Of course, those promises were made by politicians who in all likelihood will no longer be in office when the time comes to fulfil them.