India's recent move to a monitoring programme may raise competitors' costs, though too late for some firms.
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The warning comes in a report prepared by TRAFFIC, the wildlife trade monitoring programme of IUCN-The World Conservation Union and WWF, the global environment campaign.
Sandwatch is a climate change and coastal monitoring programme which encourages the development of sustainable approaches to address beach environment challenges, while also stimulating local climate change adaptation measures.
In a partnership with the Mountain Research Initiative (MRI) based in Berne (Switzerland), the International Human Dimensions Programme on Global Environmental Change (IHDP), and the International Geosphere-Biosphere Programme (IGBP), UNESCO is selecting biosphere reserve sites from each of the major mountainous regions of the world as the focus for this new global climate change monitoring programme.
However credible this assessment may be, we will endeavour - in view of the inherent uncertainties associated with any verification process, and, particularly in light of Iraq's past record of co-operation - to evaluate Iraq's capabilities on a continuous basis as part of our long-term monitoring and verification programme, in order to provide the international community with ongoing and real time assurances.
He stressed that all options were on the table, but that containment - leaving Iran to develop its programme under monitoring - was "not an option".
At the time, I serviced the cabinet committee which was in charge of monitoring the progress of the privatisation programme.
This could only be removed by a programme of on-going monitoring that used the latest and most sophisticated technology.
The UN Environment Programme (UNEP) is currently monitoring lakes that have formed as glaciers melt.
Impartial third-party monitoring from an initial baseline level of forests is essential for the real success of the programme, along with a willingness to withhold payments to countries who do not comply.
Design, in close liaison with the Divisions in the Sector and Field Offices as may be necessary, regular programme activities and extra budgetary projects for building human and institutional capacities on policy formulation and monitoring through the use of science and technology indicators and programmes to foster inter-regional cooperation in close cooperation with the UNESCO Institute for Statistics (UIS).
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