In our March statement we indicated that our current monetary policy stance remained appropriate to achieve our 2 per cent inflation
target on a sustainable basis by around the middle of 2018, whereas US authorities have now begun to tighten.
Not exact matches
Based on the report findings, CSWA is planning new
sustainable winegrowing workshops
targeted at the most challenging areas and will issue follow - up reports tracking the California wine community's progress in the years to come.
I focus
on three issues: (i) using the Global
Sustainable Development Report (GSDR) process to bridge SDGs and scientific communities, (ii) choosing
targets, indicators, and roadmaps related to STI, and (iii) the imperative of building knowledge -
based societies.
This important agreement informed the standalone goal and
targets on education proposed by the UN Open Working Group and decided by the UN General Assembly as the
basis for integrating
sustainable development goals into the post-2015 development agenda.
Priorities and
targets in the key intervention areas of education, health and nutrition, water, sanitation and hygiene and
sustainable economic activities are reviewed and adjusted
based on these results and the dynamic / changing local context.
Estimate of Swedish tax shifting
based on Paul Ekins and Stefan Speck, «Environmental Tax Reform in Europe: Energy Tax Rates and Competitiveness,» in press, 2007; Ministry of Finance, Sweden, «Taxation and the Environment,» press release (Stockholm: 25 May 2005); household size from
Target Group Index, «Household Size,» Global TGI Barometer (Miami: 2005); population from U.N. Population Division, World Population Prospects: The 2006 Revision Population Database, at http://esa.un.org/unpp/; Andrew Hoerner and Benoît Bosquet, Environmental Tax Reform: The European Experience (Washington, DC: Center for a
Sustainable Economy, 2001); European Environment Agency, Environmental Taxes: Recent Developments in Tools for Integration, Environmental Issues Series No. 18 (Copenhagen: 2000); environmental tax support from David Malin Roodman, The Natural Wealth of Nations (New York: W. W. Norton & Company, 1998), p. 243.
Here is a big stack of issues that Parties should tackle: stringent CDM reform; a framework for new mechanisms that results in a net decrease of emissions and is
based on principles ensuring
sustainable development and the protection of human rights; removal of loopholes that weaken
targets such as surplus AAUs and non-additional carbon credits.
What is important to China is that the
target is accompanied by the phrase «
on the
basis of equity and in the context of
sustainable development.»