The UNESCO Biosphere Reserve accreditation acknowledges the scientific, scenic, cultural and educational value of the area, and commits designations to the three goals of conservation, sustainable developmentand learning andresearch.
The great thing about what the companies are getting today is the knowledge and the certainty of the standard and an understanding of what they have to do to meet those standards and whatever technological advances, researchanddevelopment have to be made in those intervening years to meet those goals.
The research community must be involved in the development of these goals, targets and indicators, recognizing interconnected issues and building on existing measure of well-being.
Figuring out how much money is needed for a company to meet its goals requires a sobering view of how quickly it can complete the research-and-development phase and find customers who are willing to give its technology a try.
The goal of the project is to set up a platform for research-policy dialogues on gender equality in the context of the Millennium DevelopmentGoals (MDGs) and the post-2015 framework, as well as on wider regional gender equality related issues.