This document is part of a global assessment project to measure progress towards the Millennium Development Goals.
The Division for Science Policy and Sustainable Development is preparing a new initiative: the Science, Technology and Innovation Global Assessment Programme (STIGAP).
The latest Programme for International Student Assessment survey, in 2009, showed the UK had slipped to joint 23rd place in a global assessment of literacy, he said.
Their Global Risk Assessment Indicator (GRAI) shows strong convinction for a broad market decline in the days ahead.
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The IPCC will release its updated global warming assessment early next year.
The Global Amphibian Assessment has warned that a third of the world's amphibian species are in danger of extinction, many because of the chytrid fungus.
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LONDON, England -- While the terrorist threat in Iraq has increased, Libya is among the safest places to do business, according to a new global risk assessment.
Following the Zytiga presentation and discussion, the board took up the next item on its agenda: Should the company move ahead with adding its internally developed Global Aquatic Ingredient Assessment, GAIA for short, to the Earthwards framework?
UNESCO-IOC is pledging to coordinate a global and regional assessment of capacity development needs in the field of marine scientific research and ocean observation in developing nations and SIDS, leading to the formulation and implementation of a global capacity development strategy to fill identified gaps.
Investors chose to put aside the International Monetary Fund's dour assessment of global growth.
The Forum released its seventh annual assessment of Global Risks, a 62-page compendium of challenges and responses.
The work represents the most comprehensive assessment of global freshwater resources to date.
The latest assessment of global trade prospects underlines the importance of launching a new round of trade negotiations in Doha.
"CIE is committed to working in equal partnership with our colleagues from education ministries around the world, a relationship that forms the backbone of our reputation and work in global education provision and assessment, " he said.
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The World Water Assessment Programme is both global and local in scale, for it must check the accuracy of the big picture on the basis of snapshots of water in the field.
"It's pretty convincing stuff, " commented Piers Forster, professor of climate change at the UK's University of Leeds and a former lead author for the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change's assessment of factors driving global warming.
He said the forecasts from the OBR were down to the eurozone crisis, a hike in global commodity prices and a new assessment that the UK's economic boom was bigger and the bust deeper than previously believed.
They developed a climate computer model for the archipelago that was based on a mid-range temperature projection being used for a big upcoming UN global-climate report - the 5th Assessment Report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC).
One of these actions is to launch a global inter-disciplinary program on ocean acidification risk assessment, which would assist countries in formulating mitigation responses.
For instance, in 2002 Moody's acquired KMV, the global leader in provision of objective and quantitative credit risk assessment tools.
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"These projections will of course take into account all available information, including that relating to the global economy and oil prices, and include a full assessment of the risks to outlook, " said Mr Brown.
This scene came to mind earlier this month when the U.S. Global Change Research Program (USGCRP) released its National Climate Assessment draft report.
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At the other, global temperature specialist John Christy argued for a new model of assessment based on the wiki approach, Mike Hulme called for the panel to split into three separate expert organisations, and Eduardo Zorita proposed a major upgrade to transform the institutionally slim IPCC into a fully-fledged expert UN agency.
This study is the most comprehensive assessment to date of the value of the natural world to global economic development.
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And in addition to its assessment of environmental impacts, the study will also see how global change is affecting the socio-economic conditions of mountain people.
The Davies commission will publish an interim report by the end of 2013, with ideas on how to improve the use of existing runway capacity over the next five years and an assessment of what is needed to maintain the UK's global hub status.
His hockey stick, which purported to demonstrate the link between man-made carbon emissions and catastrophic global warming, was the central pillar of the IPCC's 2001 Third Assessment Report, and it brought him near-legendary status in his community.
The IPCC's most recent assessment maintains that humans are "very likely" responsible for recent global warming.
Denmark's free-market government named Bjorn Lomborg , reviled by greens worldwide for not believing that global eco-disaster is round the corner, to head a new office of environmental assessment.
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