The result of this was that public policies had a limited impact on reducing poverty.

However these have yet to have an appreciable positive impact on reducing the disparity between rural and urban areas.

Many representatives reported in detail on their Governments' efforts and achievements in reducing the impact of drug abuse and trafficking.

The Contracting Parties shall agree to carry out environmental impact assessment of hazardous activities, and to implement risk reducing measures.

There is a general consensus that TNC performance can have a positive impact in reducing poverty in host developing countries.

Support from the Global Fund will have a positive impact on programme actions and on reducing the incidence and prevalence of the disease.

The International Disaster Reduction Strategy, should become a pillar of United Nations activities for reducing the severe and ever growing impact of natural disasters.

The new arrangements maximize the impact of expenditures and improve service by streamlining administration, reducing overlap and directing resources to lower income Canadians in need.

The results of the three evaluations provided additional information on the impact of decentralization and its effect in promoting equity and reducing disparities across the region.

Given Europe s fiscal deficits and the economic impact of reducing them, that is a huge potential prize. But, first, the issues depressing the carbon price must be addressed.

Clearly, a policy of reducing CO2 emissions would have had zero consequence on Katrina s devastating impact on New Orleans, where such a disaster was long expected. Over the next half century, even large reductions in CO2 emissions would have only a negligible impact.

Individual policies can have a big impact, too. There is strong evidence for encouraging greater attention to mental and physical health, and for placing a high priority on reducing unemployment.

The inclusion of some form of self destruct system built into a sub munition so that they will function after a defined short time period after impact would substantially reducing the dudding rate.

The CAP reform had had a great impact on the price of cereals and imported chicken, forcing many poultry farms in Senegal to close and reducing employment, as in other West African countries.

These achievements would contribute to enhancing economic growth and reducing poverty, reducing child mortality and improving maternal health, and reducing the spread of HIV.

All sectors can improve the impact of their operations through ICT, reducing their use of resources through smart energy management, more efficient transport, transport substitution, dematerialization, electronic commerce and substitution of services for products.

Many now routinely monitor and report on their environmental impact. Some are even starting to organize around new industrial concepts such as the circular economy, which focuses on reducing waste through multiple rounds of recycling.

One promising attempt to correct this imbalance is the proposal for a Health Impact Fund that Thomas Pogge, director of the Global Justice Program at Yale, and Aidan Hollis, an economist at the University of Calgary, launched seven years ago. If the Health Impact Fund could be adequately financed, it would provide incentives to develop products in proportion to their impact in reducing the global burden of disease.

Reducing the ERW problem

The three central objectives of streamlining the complex rules and procedures with a view to reducing transaction costs, improving financial and programme results, and increasing the impact and the sustainability of development activities should be pursued with greater vigour.

(c) To revise and update the scientific priorities for NEO hazard assessment mission concepts entirely in terms of their value in reducing the risk of impact by NEOs and not by the value of the results to pure science

(v) To undertake prioritized action on measures that have a profound impact on reducing air pollutants and their negative impacts, such as the removal of lead from gasoline in countries where this has not already taken place

Reducing nuclear danger

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Reducing mortality in childhood

(o) Reducing nuclear danger

(o) Reducing nuclear danger

(f) Reducing vulnerability and protecting the environment

Reducing the risk and prevalence of war

The first limitation of breast cancer screening is obvious where effective diagnosis and treatment are not available, screening cannot have any impact. But there is more to the issue namely, whether screening ultimately fulfills its intended purpose of reducing breast cancer mortality rates.

In that connection, let me point out that there is growing evidence that the failure to address international trade in conflict goods helps to sustain criminal economic networks in post conflict environments, thereby significantly reducing the impact of in country peacebuilding strategies.

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Reducing demographic pressure on forests.

Goal 1 reducing feminized poverty

It had thus made significant progress in meeting the main Millennium Development Goals of reducing poverty and hunger, providing universal primary education and reducing the gender gap in education, and reducing the incidence of malaria, tuberculosis and HIV AIDS.

The objective of the strategy is to provide an integrated approach to urban youth development which will mainstream a focus on youth in the normative and operational activities of UN Habitat and will ultimately strengthen the impact of its work in reducing urban poverty.

Some state and local governments are experimenting with new pay for performance contracts sometimes called social impact bonds (SIBs) to promote social innovation. In a SIB, the government contracts with an outside provider to achieve a measurable social goal (like reducing recidivism among juvenile offenders), private impact investors finance the program s upfront costs, and the government promises a return to them if the program s targets are achieved.

Cooperation in clarifying forest tenure and user rights, in strengthening the legislative framework, and in developing enforcement capacity and institutions, together with monitoring, control and verification techniques, have had some impact in reducing illegal activity, but this remains a serious and important issue.

So here s the bottom line conflicts will continue and natural disasters are growing in frequency and intensity. Addressing the root causes and reducing the impact of displacement should start by heeding victims voices their needs and wishes must be understood and their rights respected.

We need to focus on reducing the oil.