And the government has made it clear that threshold could change in future.
She said HMIC had become more "independent" under Sir Denis O'Connor and its role would continue to change in future - including it reporting to Parliament rather than ministers.
In other words, a country would decide how its land-use carbon emission or absorption would be likely to change in future, and then to measure actual performance against that baseline.
The likely fate of the Amazon under climate change came under focus early last year when, as one of a series of attacks on the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), the Sunday Times newspaper accused the panel of having included an unsubstantiated claim that up to 40% of the forest could be affected by climate change in future.
"I think this is the right time to sort out Europe's problems, sort out the eurozone problem, defend your national interest, and look to the opportunities there may be in the future to repatriate powers back to Britain - and obviously the idea of some limited treaty change in the future might give us that opportunity, " he told a news conference.
Last week the journal Science published news of a fascinating psychological study, involving 19, 000 people ages 18 to 68, in which subjects consistently underestimated the degree to which they would change in the future, even though they knew how much they had changed in the past.
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Currently, very few businesses or insurance companies request genetic information, but this could change in the future.
This may of course change in the future but then the volatility of the whole balance sheet would be greatly increased.
He also praised Obama's willingness to leave behind a significant residual force and reassess the situation if conditions change in the future.
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Ideally, that will change in the future but no one suggests it will happen within the next decade or perhaps even within a generation.
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Because the meals are customized, passengers are required to order anywhere from 24 to 48 hours in advance, though that may also change in the future.
In case you missed it, a new study from the journal Science asserts that we totally underestimate the degree to which we will change in the future.
That may change in the future if he decides to complete a graduate degree, but my husband and I wiped our brows with a collective sigh of relief.
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Mr Systrom acknowledged that terms and conditions would need to change in the future to accommodate new revenue models, but pledged to keep users fully informed of any plans.
Mr. Roux told the court that Mr. Pistorius had no immediate plans to compete internationally but that could change in the future, according to local media inside the appeal hearing.
The company said it does not currently think the lawsuits will have a "material adverse effect" on its business but said it is possible that could change in the future.
Top CFOs have tried to reinvent themselves as the boss's "strategic partner", pulling back from day-to-day counting of beans, and focusing more on how demand and supply of beans may change in the future.
This may change in the future, and certainly cord-cutting is on the rise, but at the present there is no incentive for HBO to worry about piracy or to offer a stand-alone service.
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And that's before recognizing recent research on the so-called "End of History" illusion, which suggests we're remarkably bad at estimating how our tastes and preferences (including potential spending behaviors) will change in the future.
Too often we focus on the day to day decisions our businesses require of us and forget that we need be communicating how our businesses are going to create radical, positive change in the future.
Pomahac used to say there's no chance of restoring Wiens' sight, because of lack of technology, but now he says there could be hope for that to change in the future, he said at the news conference.
That might change in the future.
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For instance, the Hadley Centre for climate research in the UK, published research only this week suggesting that forests will speed up climate change in the future, as the soil will start to emit more greenhouse gases than the trees absorb as the temperature builds up.
Without change in policy, future revenues will cover only net interest by 2040 and pay for nothing else.
However, according to Montague, that situation might change in the near future, with a massive English institution firmly on Qatar's radar.
All of the vaccines currently being produced are made from chicken eggs, which is unlikely to change in the near future.
Today's low interest rates are good for big capital projects like nuclear, but those rates may change sharply in the future.
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