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(a) Identification of the key sources of marine plastic debris and microplastics; (b) Identification of possible measures and best available techniques and environmental practices to prevent the accumulation and minimize the level of microplastics in the marine environment; (c) Recommendations for the most urgent actions; (d) Specification of areas especially in need of more research, including key impacts on the environment and on human health; (e) Any other relevant priority areas identified in the assessment of
the Joint Group of Experts on the Scientific Aspects of Marine Environmental Protection;
Welcomes the initiative by
the Joint Group of Experts on the Scientific Aspects of Marine Environmental Protection to produce an assessment report on microplastics, which is scheduled to be launched in November 2014; 13.
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Joint Group of Experts on the Scientific Aspects of Marine Environmental Protection (GESAMP)
An estimated 80 percent of marine litter comes from the land, according to the United Nation's
Joint Group of Experts on the Scientific Aspects of Marine Environmental Protection (GESAMP).
The study by
the Joint Group of Experts on the Scientific Aspects of Marine Environmental Protection (GESAMP), a United Nations advisory body, provides a new estimate of the extent that human beings are altering the cycling of nitrogen in the oceans.
A joint group of researchers from Chuo University, Japan Women's University and Tohoku University has revealed that infants aged between 5 and 7 months hold the representation of color categories in their brain, even before the acquisition of language.
Furthermore, results closely related to this group's research results were simultaneously published in the Nature Communications by
a joint group of researchers from Nippon Telegraph and Telephone Corporation (NTT) and French research institutes.
Not exact matches
The most significant piece
of good news amid the chaos was a
joint development and manufacturing agreement with Foxconn Technology
Group.
Aurizon's West Pilbara iron ore
joint venture has won backing from one
of Australia's big four banks, ANZ Banking
Group.
While he regularly makes outside investments with a
group of other investors for his own personal account, he made it clear that — even in an era when everyone is looking for strategic partners,
joint ventures, and hoping to use OPM — when it comes to Morningstar, he prefers to own 100 %
of the opportunity and go it alone.
The New York City Council and a local tenants rights
group announced on Monday that they would launch a
joint investigation into the real estate company formerly headed by Jared Kushner, a top aide to President Donald Trump, over alleged falsification
of building permits.
The stake sale
of CIMB Securities International would see CIMB
Group and China Galaxy run a 50:50 stockbroking
joint venture outside
of Malaysia.
Engineering company Monadelphous
Group has provided its
joint venture partner AnaeCo with a $ 4.6 million loan facility to help fund the remaining cost
of the company's WMRC project in Shenton Park.
BC Iron has announced settlement
of its dispute with former contractor Watpac, with the settlement including a final payment by BC Iron and its
joint venture partner Fortescue Metals
Group.
A
joint venture between Viento
Group and indigenous - owned Kimberley Pipelines has been awarded a $ 9.8 million pipeline construction works contract for the first stage
of Fortescue Metals
Group's North Star magnetite project in the Pilbara..
Law Central, a subsidiary
of ASX - listed ILH
Group, has formed a
joint venture with PantherCorp for the provision
of online legal services.
Applecross - based Kerman Contracting has won a $ 67 million deal for the design and construction
of a grain export facility for Quattro Ports, a
joint venture between Qube Holdings, Noble
Group, Cargill Australia and Emerald Grain.
Sedgman's
joint venture operation with Thiess has won a $ 64 million contract for the design and construction
of a modular iron processing plant at Fortescue Metal
Group's Solomon iron ore mine in Western Australia.
The CEO
of the
joint venture between Starbucks and Tata
Group, Davda is bringing iced Frappuccinos to India — a critical region for the coffee giant, which wants the country to become one
of its top five global markets.
The two
groups said in a
joint statement on Thursday they were in detailed talks over a deal that would give Ladbrokes shareholders around 46.5 percent
of the combined
group.
«These types
of movements are multi
joint movements and work multiple muscle
groups at once, and whenever more muscles are involved, there's more that can potentially go wrong.»
«Through a series
of intragroup financial and commercial agreements, the majority shareholders
group implemented a policy that resulted in draining, to its own benefit, the treasury and the wealth
of the
joint company,» Gecamines said in a statement.
A
joint venture
of the holders
of Bon - Ton's 8.0 percent second lien secured notes due 2021, Great American
Group LLC and Tiger Capital
Group LLC will...
Over the last decade, the number
of adults under age 30 has jumped by 5 million, but the number
of households for that age
group rose by just 200,000, the Journal reports, citing the Harvard
Joint Center for Housing Studies.
Hariri is part
of a
joint government that includes Hezbollah, the Iran - backed militant
group, and he used his resignation speech to criticize that
group and Iran.
To test the effect
of sharing a meal on the outcome
of negotiations, Balachandra put 132 MBA students into small
groups and asked them to hammer out a complex
joint venture agreement between two companies.
One thing that had been missing from Amazon Channels» list
of standalone services was an option dedicated solely to anime, especially since the lineup does not include popular anime on - demand service Crunchyroll, which is owned by the AT&T and Chernin
Group joint venture, Otter Media.
That's according to a
joint survey
of 2,000 U.S. adults, conducted by Discover and Match Media
Group, in which respondents either had an active dating platform or met their partner online.
www.smgworld.com Summit Partners and FleetCor Technologies (NYSE: FLT) have formed a
joint venture to acquireMasternaut
Group Holdings Ltd., a UK - based provider
of telematics solutions to commercial fleets.
PERTH - based Genesis Biomedical Ltd and German biotechnology
group co.don are investigating the feasibility
of establishing an Asia Pacific
joint venture company to supply human tissue engineering and transplantation products and services for musculo - s...
THE Western Australian Awards began in 1972 as a
joint initiative
of the Fleetwood
Group of Com - panies and the WA Department
of Tourism to recognise individuals and organisations who had made an outstanding contribution to the tourism industry.
Softbank
Group subsidiary ARM Holdings will cede control
of its Chinese operations to a new
joint venture involving itself and Chinese partners, Nikkei reported, citing people familiar with the matter.
A growing movement
of more than 70 business, industry and community
groups, representing hundreds
of thousands
of British Columbians and Canadians, have come together over the last two days to sign a
joint letter calling on Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and Premiers John Horgan and Rachel Notley to resolve the impasse on the Trans Mountain Pipeline project.
He was a founding member
of the Canadian E-Business Opportunities Roundtable, a
joint private and public sector advisory
group on e-business in Canada.
Wang - controlled Dalian Wanda
Group Co.'s purchase
of Burbank, California - based Legendary Entertainment marks China's largest overseas «cultural acquisition,» according to a
joint statement.
The
joint statement by the Institutional Investors
Group on Climate Change, the Investor Network on Climate Risk, and the Investors
Group on Climate Change also encourages intensive gas users and governments in oil and gas importing regions to consider playing a role in encouraging control
of methane emissions.
A member
of the Corporate Commercial, International and Mergers & Acquisitions
Groups, he has been involved in a broad range
of transactions, including acquisitions, mergers, corporate reorganizations, private equity and venture capital financings, technology transfers and
joint ventures.
As well, they agreed to form a working
group to explore the
joint development
of the trouble - plagued Pascua - Lama deposit in Chile and will «evaluate additional investment opportunities» near the border
of Argentina and Chile.
Ripple Labs and Aite
Group hosted a
joint webinar last week to discuss the challenges
of modernizing real - time global payments.
South Korean bitcoin exchange Coinplug has announed a new
joint remittance venture with the fintech subsidiary
of Japan - based investment
group SBI.
In an ultimate story
of small business savvy enacting huge community change, a
group of female elders from the Wirlu - murra Aboriginal community in Roebourne have translated a market stall selling local artwork into
joint venture mining contracts worth over $ 100 million.
As part
of the automaker's 120th anniversary celebration in Shanghai, Alibaba, Groupe Renault and Dongfeng Renault — a
joint venture between car manufacturers Dongfeng Motor
Group and Renault — joined in a strategic partnership to «forge a unique experience to Tmall and Renault customers worldwide,» the statement said.
WMYAC and Eastern Guruma have formed an exciting new
joint venture to undertake $ 200 million worth
of mining contracts at Fortescue Metals
Group's Solomon mine.
The fashion «unicorn» has entered into a
joint venture with Chalhoub
Group, one
of the biggest distributors
of fashion and luxury goods in the Middle East, an underserved e-commerce market with high growth potential.
About BSD - TEDA BSD - TEDA is a
joint venture between the Beijing Science Park Development
Group and Tianjin TEDA Investment Holdings created to promote the construction, development, investment and operation
of the Sino - Canadian Low - Carbon Eco-District, a Canadian - Chinese cooperation project supported by the Chinese Ministry
of Housing and Urban - Rural Development and Natural Resources Canada.
Last month, Overstock announced that tZERO — one
of its blockchain portfolio companies — had entered into a
joint venture with the Argon
Group and RenGen to develop the first U.S. regulated alternative trading system (ATS) and platform that will be support trading for security tokens.
In 2014, Mr. Turnbull was appointed by the Government
of Canada as one
of two Co-Chairs
of the Canada - Assembly
of First Nations,
Joint Working
Group on Resource Development, and delivered the final report in 2015.
[355] During the initial years
of the Obama administration, the U.S. increased military cooperation with Israel, including increased military aid, re-establishment
of the U.S. - Israeli
Joint Political Military
Group and the Defense Policy Advisory
Group, and an increase in visits among high - level military officials
of both countries.
UBS seeks control
of Chinese
joint ventureUBS
Group AG became the first foreign bank to seek a controlling stake in its mainland Chinese business under new rules, days after China eased foreign - ownership restrictions.