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

Reducing the risk and prevalence of war

Risk reduction, therefore, entails reducing vulnerability to hazards.

Reducing the risk of terrorist financing by operational entities

Working in conjunction with risk management software, the sensor system was reducing the risk of potential environmental contamination from hydrocarbon spillage.

Measures to support risk reduction

Indeed, because standard measures of the probability of default fall when the economy is doing well and rise when it is not, capital requirements based on these measures tend to be pro cyclical. But this increases systemic risk, rather than reducing it.

Reducing risk by strengthening disaster management must be a principal aim of the international community.

Combating the risk of nuclear terrorism by reducing the civilian use of highly enriched uranium

Stronger regional governance structures may be the only effective means of reducing exogenous geopolitical risk.

The issue of continuous improvement measures for reducing emissions was also raised.

Reducing the number of new infections by properly informing the general public, integrating information on healthy sexual practices into school health policy, prevention programmes aimed at the highest risk groups, hygiene measures, screening pregnant women, screening donor blood, and harm reduction measures such as needle exchange programmes.

Reducing the incidence of malaria among children and pregnant women, through preventive measures.

And here are some common drugs that have been associated with reducing the risk of cancer in people.

The Framework calls for targeted increases in official development assistance and national budgets towards reducing underlying risk factors.

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

Keeping young people HIV negative and reducing their risk and vulnerability to HIV infection continue to be urgent priorities.

It also provides security for owners through reducing the risk of someone else laying a claim to their land.

Innovative measures had succeeded in reducing unemployment while education free and compulsory was guaranteed for everyone.

The drug is already given for 12 months after a heart attack, reducing the risk of a stroke or another attack.

When investors make less risky loans, they require a lower risk premium , thereby reducing the cost of borrowing to the borrower.

Several countries found it practical to use disaster resistant hospitals as an example of a benchmark for reducing overall disaster risk.

Specific health sector measures included vaccination and chemical prevention measures, and monitoring of risk groups, especially in exposed areas.

Emphasizing that disaster risk reduction, including reducing vulnerability to natural disasters, is an important element that contributes to the achievement of sustainable development,

Such risk evaluations or information on alternative risk mitigation measures submitted by Parties may be found on the Rotterdam Convention web site (www.pic.int).

(a) Options for reducing the risk posed to the United Nations Postal Administration by the use of its services for commercial and bulk mail

Several national networks and consortia have already developed models for estimating the breast cancer risk in women with a positive family history. We have criteria for genetic testing of both BRCA1 and BRCA2 and guidelines for risk adapted surveillance programs including, where appropriate, risk reducing surgery.

Emphasizing that disaster risk reduction, including reducing vulnerability to natural disasters, is an important cross cutting element that contributes to the achievement of sustainable development,

As far as protecting yourself against Alzheimer s disease, well, it turns out that fish oil has the effect of reducing your risk for Alzheimer s disease.

We must also work on reducing the risk of the proliferation of chemical weapons and of possible access to such weapons by non State actors or terrorists.

Reducing prevalence of communicable diseases. A National Programme for immunizing mothers against neo natal tetanus will be implemented in 57 selected High Risk districts of the country.

Developing countries must be proactive in designing and implementing trade facilitation measures for enhancing efficiency, reducing transaction costs and maintaining supply capacities.

One of the primary measures to be taken to address climate change encompasses reducing the utilization of fossil fuels and combating desertification.

ICAO recently developed new guidance material on the subject and believes that if properly implemented, general measures can reduce the risk of a successful attack considerably, and that additional measures taken at times of heightened risk could reduce the threat still further.

The humanitarian implications of small arms have alerted the international community to the urgency of curbing their illicit trafficking, thus reducing violence and the risk of civil wars.

Recognizing also the need to integrate a gender perspective in the design and implementation of all phases of disaster risk reduction management, with a view to reducing vulnerability,

These submunitions have a very high level of reliability, thus reducing the risk of generation of explosive remnants of war and consequently of collateral damage among civilian populations.

The Committee should consider the issue comprehensively so as to contribute to the development of concrete measures for reducing duplication, complexity and bureaucracy.

In addition, the Treasury has implemented a set of measures to assist peacekeeping missions in reducing local bank charges, finding alternative means of transporting money into and within mission areas by United Nations personnel and reducing cash in transit insurance premiums.

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Has Thailand implemented, using risk assessment principles, appropriate security measures concerning the import, export and transit of firearms?

With the right design, the contribution of social protection measures to reducing malnutrition would increase substantially. For example, certain benefits could be conditional on prenatal and postnatal nutrition measures targeting mothers and pre school children.

The evidence shows that ticagrelor, in combination with aspirin, is effective at reducing the risk of further heart attacks and strokes in people who have already had a heart attack.

Treatment alternatives to imprisonment for persons arrested for offences involving drug possession were also mentioned as an effective approach to reducing the risk of HIV infection and continued drug abuse.

1.9 Has Portugal implemented, using risk assessment principles, appropriate security measures concerning the import, export and transit of firearms?