Other ideas include a clean development mechanism that would allow firms and countries to earn credits for investments that help poor countries clean up, and a joint implementation scheme that awards credits for projects carried out in other industrialised countries.

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Early 2005 saw the formal launching of the UN Decade of Education for Sustainable Development (DESD), with UNESCO (as lead agency) and a suite of partners and collaborators working together to put into action the International Implementation Scheme for the Decade.

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Plans produced by an international company show how the tax could work and how much the implementation of the scheme will cost.

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The committee has even questioned the implementation of the scheme, which has been held up as a success story by the authorities.

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He said he was supportive of the DUP's recommendations for the implementation of a scheme similar to the rural fuel duty relief scheme recently introduced for the Inner and Outer Hebrides, the Northern Isles, the Islands of the Clyde and the Isles of Scilly.

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The implementation of such a resolution scheme does raise a number of complex issues, however, and further study will be needed to develop specific, workable proposals.

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As I said on the Today programme this morning, if the bank, with all its internal misgivings about the scheme, messes up in the implementation it might not save the euro either.

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Finally, with two days to go before the scheme's launch, a high court judge stopped its implementation to allow time for a judicial review.

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The key difference: the Thai scheme was administered by the government, which has acknowledged problems with the selection process and the speed of implementation.

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