i. The minimization of environmental harm.

Minimization of adverse impacts in accordance with Article 3, paragraph 14

Part VI Review of information on the minimization of adverse impacts in accordance with Article 3, paragraph 14

Several national societies had initiated pilot activities which had demonstrated that local activities could make a practical contribution to eliminate risk reduction.

Urges UNDP and UNFPA to base their oversight and accountability activities on a corporate risk model and develop risk assessment functions in their audit offices

The selection of priority sectors was reported to be based on economic and environmental significance, cost effectiveness, emission reduction, contribution to other development goals (e.g. Albania), technological benefits, level of barriers, potential to attract funding from the Global Environment Facility (GEF) and other sources, and contribution to risk minimization.

The most sustainable means of doing that was to encourage industrial development, particularly in agro processing and minimization of post harvest losses.

That restriction could be justified insofar as the State authorizing such activities should also assume the resulting risk.

Risk mitigation activities and reducing the hazardous conditions under which a threat can materialize are the next step.

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

b. provide appropriate assistance, especially to developing States, for the minimization of the effects of major incidents which may cause serious pollution of the marine environment

Examples of measures to safeguard the health of women and children are the minimization of chemical exposures before conception and through gestation, infancy, childhood and adolescence.

As well as responsibility for the operational policies and procedures, the Risk and Compliance Section provides overall control, such that pre settlement activities are managed and monitored and that risk, up to trade settlement, is controlled.

The group took the view that the board should give appropriate disclosures and assurance regarding its risk management objectives, systems and activities.

In particular, it was agreed that the board should disclose existing provisions for identifying and managing the effects of risk bearing activities.

Minimization of hazardous wastes would be enhanced by national planning and policies, awareness raising and protection of handlers, while contaminated sites would be subject to identification and remediation.

Cooperation is essential to the implementation of CSP, as it promotes the sharing of costs and risk in carrying out programmes and activities.

In Afghanistan, United Nations election activities were deliberately targeted throughout the lead up to the October 2004 elections, and are again at risk.

These include increased industrial development and other activities that could lead to higher levels of background air pollution and other health risk factors.

The programme provides the constructive life skills of peace and conflict minimization and prevention to refugee and returnee children, youth and the wider community through experiential learning and training.

In regard to such risk factors as the number of sites operating in extreme circumstances, the nature of UNHCR activities, staff rotation and the number of temporary staff in over 100 countries, there was an inherent risk of fraud.

The present articles apply to activities not prohibited by international law which involve a risk of causing significant transboundary harm through their physical consequences.

In Europe, a large number of activities in the field of NEO impact risk assessment has been initiated by academics, but few by institutions.

Techno economic support to pilot rural agro enterprises will be provided, which will result in smoother production flows improved product quality waste minimization and by product utilization, and improved packaging.

Activities aimed at raising the level of preparedness of local communities should take due account of local realities, indigenous coping mechanisms and perceptions of risk.

In Sudan, the peacekeeping mission's mine risk education activities were helping the local and displaced populations to avoid accidents as they returned to their homes.

Systemic issues and trends have emerged from the audited activities of UNHCR's higher risk operations (emergency or large and complex) where UNHCR's visibility is high.

A number of relevant case studies on available alternatives and on the use of substitutes were identified, relating in particular to the treatment and minimization of medical, municipal and hazardous wastes.

These activities are focused in four key areas health and wellness and risk prevention parenting and family supports child development and community support and community building.

Further integrative measures will attenuate risk and emphasize badly needed investment in infrastructure development and the creation of opportunities for generation of economic activities, particularly employment.

Prior to the beginning of the peace negotiations, it was virtually impossible to engage in mine surveys, clearing, capacity development or even mine risk education activities.

Permits are required for those facilities whose activities exceed certain annual thresholds, based on the risk associated with the given Schedule for transparency and non proliferation purposes.

The types of activities that receive funding under the programme include community night patrols, programmes for youths at risk, offender post release support and prisoner support initiatives.

Those activities by the military component were intended to support local communities in order to foster good relationships and consequently to minimize the risk of hostile acts.

For some of the larger operations in hardship areas, key positions were not filled, sometimes for extended periods, resulting in insufficient attention to important high risk activities.

Article 47 The Company shall present detailed analysis on all risk factors influencing its business operating activities and the specific performance of such factors during the reporting period.

In countries where prostitution is illegal, the clandestine nature of such activities makes HIV and STI prevention activities difficult to implement, while in countries with legal but regulated systems, registration and periodic health testing tend to drive sex workers at highest risk underground.

LONDON News media are constantly reporting ways that everyday activities can damage our health. But perhaps the most far reaching yet neglected global health risk stems from gender norms.

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.

The UNMEE Mine Action Coordination Centre's Mine Risk Education field teams focused their outreach activities on the recently returned internally displaced persons in Sector West, in accordance with the priorities established in collaboration with the Eritrean authorities. In total, the teams provided mine risk education to 6,890 persons.

The new Law on Protection from Ionizing Radiation is expected to provide for supervision and minimization of the unnecessary exposure of the population to the widely used sources of ionizing radiation in medicine, industry and research.

Major activities in this respect include subsidizing education for girls in impoverished areas, working to alleviate poverty and striving to reduce the risk of abduction among the most vulnerable groups.

(h) Security management. Participants should adopt a comprehensive approach to security management based on risk assessment that is dynamic, encompassing all levels of participants' activities and all aspects of their operations

However, as the activities of the Kyoto Protocol commence, and have impacts in countries other than the host country of the secretariat, the risk of third party claims will inevitably increase.

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