(c) The risk of significant harm to the environment and the availability of means of preventing such harm, or minimizing the risk thereof or restoring the environment

(a) The degree of risk of significant transboundary harm and of the availability of means of preventing such harm, or minimizing the risk thereof or repairing the harm

Campaigns reached over 5 million children, while the restoration of routine immunization has been crucial for minimizing the risk of disease spread.

Minimizing negative effects of business restructuring

The challenges are also enormous in maintaining international attention in areas where peace remains fragile unless sustained through a multidimensional approach to peace, thus minimizing the risk of relapse into conflict.

Risk reduction (including preventing, reducing, remediating, minimizing and eliminating risks) is a key need in pursuing the sound management of chemicals, including products and articles containing chemicals, throughout their entire life cycle.

States concerned shall cooperate in good faith and, as necessary, seek the assistance of one or more competent international organizations in preventing significant transboundary harm or at any event in minimizing the risk thereof.

And minimizing friction turns out to be the decisive variable.

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Technologies like MRI can help in surgical planning, resection control, and quality assurance. Magnetic resonance compatible robotics allow for real time imaging, providing information about anatomical structures and changes in the brain relative to surgical pathology while operating, thereby minimizing risk.

Technology transfer, ethical business behaviour and minimizing the negative effects of business restructuring

Recently, international cooperation in minimizing the consequences of the Chernobyl disaster has been stepped up.

Could it focus, for example, on contributing to the objective of minimizing and eliminating tax evasion?

The Council should be able to assist UNOCI in minimizing all security risks in the country.

The main purpose of the paper is to facilitate the future discussion on the issue on possible preventive measures aimed at improving the design of certain specific type of munitions, including submunitions, with a view to minimizing the humanitarian risk of these munitions becoming explosive remnants of war.

Transfer of technology to host countries, ethical business behaviour and minimizing the negative effects of business restructuring

Maintaining the stability of the scale, and thus minimizing uncertainties, would facilitate the normal functioning of the Organization.

Students working on that project were especially concerned with minimizing costs and keeping the infrastructure as simple as possible.

Support was expressed for the present draft principle, noting that it was an essential means of minimizing transboundary damage.

It is expected that this endeavour will facilitate cooperation among partners, thereby minimizing the overlap of efforts and maximizing effect.

Countries thus need to develop the capacity to manage globalization, with the aim of maximizing its benefits and minimizing its costs.

While the activity is being carried out, the States concerned shall exchange in a timely manner all available information concerning that activity relevant to preventing significant transboundary harm or at any event minimizing the risk thereof. Such an exchange of information shall continue until such time as the States concerned consider it appropriate even after the activity is terminated.

He knows that any weapon capable of shooting down a Syrian warplane could also be used by a terrorist against a US airliner. He believes that he is doing the right thing and following the prudent course in waiting for the Syrian conflict to burn itself out in some way while minimizing the long term risk to American lives.

President Xi Jinping faces the politically risky task of pushing the CCP s reform agenda against fierce opposition while the economy slows. By emphasizing Party control through a crackdown on SOEs, government opponents, and critics in the media and academia Xi seeks to maximize his ability to impose economic reforms while minimizing the risk of a challenge from conservative forces.

Bearing in mind the need for know how in minimizing and mitigating radiological, health, socio economic, psychological and environmental problems in the Semipalatinsk region,

In any case, greater political legitimacy would likely make the Fund s crisis leadership smoother and more credible, potentially shortening crises and minimizing their pain.

Taking note of the need for know how in minimizing and mitigating radiological, health, socio economic, psychological and environmental problems in the Semipalatinsk region,

He highlighted the purposeful work on minimizing negative impacts of unfavourable geographical location of the landlocked developing countries, eliminating barriers in international transport communications.

Achieving more aggressive environmental goals, particularly limiting warming to 1.5ºC, or zero greenhouse gas emissions in the second half of the century, would of course be desirable in terms of minimizing the risk of disaster scenarios. In fact, the first INDCs, by themselves, are nowhere near enough even to limit warming to 2ºC (the global goal that was agreed in Cancún in 2010).

In this environment, mistrust of China s rise as a regional hegemon in much of East Asia only intensifies the need for active Chinese participation in promoting regional stability and peace a peace framework with Asian roots, acceptable to all parties. Only through such efforts will China be able to increase its international legitimacy, thereby minimizing the risk of future conflict.

Moreover, smallholder farmers who are essential to productive, stable, resilient, and equitable agricultural development should be given the needed tools and support to capture more benefits from value chains, while minimizing risk. This requires building and maintaining fair and efficient input and output markets that connect them as well as larger scale farmers physically and virtually to opportunities to increase their incomes.

In the medium term, the two governments should work out a formula for coping with scenarios that now play out regularly. A crisis management team, composed of representatives of both countries foreign ministries, coast guards, and militaries, should not only meet regularly, but should also consult each other in emergency situations, thereby minimizing the risk that matters get out of control.

4. Notes that minimizing the occurrence of high rates of job turnover in Professional categories in the United Nations is essential to its smooth functioning

UNHCR had taken measures which would complement the anticipated United Nations system wide changes so as to improve its ability to perform while minimizing risks.

Requests the Secretary General to review the administrative support structure for the quick impact projects with a view to minimizing overhead costs for their implementation

The chief will be responsible for risk control of the Fund's investments as a whole in terms of portfolio risk, operational risk and compliance risk, and will plan and perform the oversight of performance measurement, investment risk analysis and operational risk analysis, including risk arising from sub adviser and service provider relationships.

Minimizing the fluctuation between assets and the present value of liabilities requires matching the characteristics of liabilities with assets with similar characteristics and adjusting for inflation.

We are emerging from a period when companies, under pressure to meet shareholder expectations, favored profitability and growth, even if it meant taking undue risks and losing public confidence. Companies now need to work on minimizing risk and building trust by meeting the legitimate expectations of all their stakeholders, including reducing their activities adverse impact on the environment and creating high quality employment opportunities.

Such investment is often undertaken with a view to minimizing the overall tax burden of a company and may also be undertaken to hedge against currency movements.

Immediate actions to optimize the implementation efficiency and impact of current DDT use, while minimizing human and environmental exposure and Diversification of intervention options to incorporate alternatives.

There's another risk, and they respond less to this existing risk.

They have an increased risk of infection, an increased risk of malignancy.

Risk reduction

Ukraine attaches particular importance to the problem of outer space pollution, and designs, operates and upgrades its carrier rockets and other spacecraft with a view to minimizing such pollution.