He wants funding for Scotland to be on the basis of a needs assessment, not the formula which bears his name.

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Lehmann points out that over the next few months the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change will begin to bring together the latest data that will form the basis of their next assessment.

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In terms of development outcomes, the Meeting agreed that the UN Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) should form the basis for any assessment of the development outcomes of a certified green development land management plan.

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Such a risk assessment is the basis of buy-and-hold advice that urges investors with medium or long time horizons to load up on U.S. stocks.

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The Platform will do so through the production of assessment reports on a regular basis, which will also include recommended policy responses.

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Even then, however, the unlikely durability of such an assessment made it a poor basis for U.S. disengagement from the world.

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In response to concerns that large-scale ocean fertilization might be attempted before its consequences were fully understood, CBD, Parties to the LC and LP and IOC have urged governments to ensure that ocean fertilization activities do not take place until there is an adequate scientific basis on which to justify such activities, including an assessment of associated risks.

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