Tom needs a change of scenery.

Needs for technologies for adaptation to climate change

But we realize that the United Nations needs to change, just as the world around it has changed.

Pruitt presented the change as his agency being more responsive than past administrations to the needs of state environmental regulators.

Needs and constraints Most Parties reported on their needs to integrate climate change considerations into sustainable development plans.

While flexibility in design has enabled programmes to seize opportunities as they arise and as needs change, they have also led to insufficient long term strategizing and planning.

The attitude of the society needs to change including that of the women themselves.

This approach needs to change if the challenges facing the region are to be overcome.

Capacity to manage different stages of change in the planning process needs to be built up incrementally.

Often the target populations of poverty eradication projects are perceived as masses of undernourished people, overwhelmed by their circumstances and needs rather than capable agents of change in their communities.

And indeed, unfortunately, if you navigate by needs you get a very unfocused agenda, because in these situations, needs are everywhere, but the capacity to implement change is very limited.

It facilitates the integration of women's differing experience and needs into the development process, as well into the society and helps to change the negative social norms that discriminate against women.

Most Parties, however, emphasized that climate change measures, particularly on GHG abatement, are primarily aimed at addressing energy needs.

Upon a change in the financial situation of a parent or the needs of a child, a court may change the amount of support at the request of an interested person.

The West needs Russia as much as Russia needs the West, the thinking goes, whereas no one (to say the least) needs a sanctuary for Islamist fanatics in the heart of the Middle East. That is why Russia must be persuaded to change course through a combination of economic sanctions, strategic unity, and diplomatic engagement by contrast, the Islamic State s ambitions cannot be contained, so they must be suppressed.

Europe needs a clearer and more recognizable global agenda. It needs to build substantially on its leadership on climate change by adopting much tougher EU goals, and then use its international economic and trade clout to champion new global emissions standards that scientific opinion can accept as meaningful.

Box 4. Examples of needs identified by non Annex I Parties for effective integration of climate change considerations into sustainable development

They provided information on needs and efforts for institutional strengthening, which is essential for the effective implementation of climate change activities.

Just as the body needs exercise, so the mind needs stimulation to stay healthy.

But, as important as it is to change the lightbulbs, it is more important to change the laws.

At the moment, we don t hear much about the smartest choices when it comes to addressing global warming. That needs to change.

The handbook needs to take a broader approach to assessment that addresses all the issues of adapting to impacts of climate change.

However the pace of this change needs to be increased considerably if the Millennium Development and EFA goals are to be met.

If we procrastinate, the dangers posed by climate change will confront us as we talk, debate, and plan. The world needs to start acting soon very soon if it is to head off the major threats.

But with the work we've been doing, focussing on the customers needs, not our own, I think you're seeing a lot of change.

Mr. Yamil Bonduki, United Nations Development Programme (UNDP), presented an overview of the UNDP handbook on Conducting Technology Needs Assessments for Climate Change.

They take our identity and change our emotions and change who we are as people.

Our commitment must be as strong as our greatest needs require.

In the process, change must be as democratic as possible.

WASHINGTON, DC Coal is emerging as a major topic of conversation at the United Nations climate change negotiations currently taking place in Warsaw and rightly so. Indeed, it is a discussion that the world needs to have.

Moreover, it is not just bold domestic reforms that must be embraced. Japan also needs to change how its economy interacts with the world.

Change has accelerated as human populations rose.

Tourism as a force for environmental change

Recognizing the impact of climate change on forests and sustainable forest management, as well as the contribution of forests to addressing climate change,

To change this, the government needs to promote market based credit allocation. China needs a flexible and efficient financial sector, underpinned by an effectively supervised and regulated capital market, to avoid asset bubbles and support productive and innovative firms.

We have to change the minds of the American people. Because presently the politicians do not have permission to do what needs to be done.

How to change current trends in resource mobilization, given that regions and countries with the greatest needs have limited ability to commit these resources themselves

Parties have identified their needs, common barriers and constraints to the integration of climate change policies and activities into national sustainable development plans and actions.

While encouraging the rule of law and the growth of civil society, the US still needs to work with other governments, democratic and otherwise. Pressing problems, such as the economic crisis, nuclear proliferation, and climate change, will not wait.

E business practices also required an enabling legal and regulatory environment, and solutions needed to be sufficiently flexible so as not to be rendered obsolete by rapid technological change and to adapt to the specific needs of developing countries.

The LEG also acted upon the needs expressed by LDC Parties during the 2003 regional workshops, in particular those needs relating to the two NAPA steps of ranking prioritization and synthesis of available information on the adverse effects of climate change.

How we build things can change as well.

Throwing overboard, as ballast, to change our direction.

Plus ça change, as the French would say.

Malaysia recognizes youth as the agents of change.