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The first detailed
assessment
of climate risk for Asia, carried out by the Asian Development Bank (ADB) and the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research (PIK), makes clear that Asia’s cities stand at the frontline of the fight against climate change.
This model leaves the
assessment
and administration of corporate taxes entirely in the hands of member states, and would not require harmonization of legal and accounting rules.
But a sober
assessment
of what might follow a UN endorsement of Palestine’s borders allows for some cautious optimism.
Time to Talk with IranBERLIN – The recent comprehensive
assessment
by America’s spy agencies about Iran’s nuclear program and ambitions – the so-called “National Intelligence Estimate” – has opened the door to fresh strategic discussions among the five permanent members of the United Nations Security Council and Germany.
Traders should have gone back much further – or better yet, formed judgments based on a more comprehensive
assessment
of what risks might confront the world economy.
In its 2009 intelligence
assessment
(the TE-SAT Terrorism Situation and Trend Report), Europol concluded that “Pakistan [has] replaced Iraq as preferred destinations for volunteers wishing to engage in armed conflict.”
National governments need to be able to draw on an accurate and objective
assessment
of climate science in order to determine what policy decisions should be taken in this area.
The IPCC provides a risk
assessment
to the world, and, perhaps even more urgently, surveys the likely impacts of climate change.
Moreover, the four
assessment
reports that the IPCC has so far produced have allowed a better understanding of the threat posed by climate change in terms of extreme weather events and natural disasters.
This failure to strengthen key functions at the IPCC left the organization unable to prevent and respond effectively to the minor mistakes that appeared in its last
assessment
report, published in 2007.
In 2013, for example, the Carlos Slim Foundation conducted a rigorous baseline
assessment
at eight primary-care clinics to understand the state of diabetes prevention and treatment.
Therefore, it has been, for Chileans, a time of
assessment
and of asking ourselves a very simple, yet profound, question: have we done things right or wrong?
In Colombia’s south – where the heavy presence of illegal armed groups makes social peace a distant dream – I went to visit a secondary school, as part of a needs
assessment.
After the release of IPBES regional reports next year, a global
assessment
building on them will be published in 2019.
While this seems to be a very pessimistic
assessment
of the regional situation, the radical Islamist side has many weaknesses.
But, according to a comprehensive study released last month by the National Ecological Centre of Ukraine (NECU), the
assessment
on which this decision was based was deeply flawed.
Though this contravenes Ukraine’s responsibility, as a signatory to the Espoo convention, to carry out a cross-border environmental-impact
assessment
(not to mention missing the opportunity to consider potential alternatives to continuing the reactor’s operation), no such analysis is expected to take place.
Last month, campaign groups in neighboring countries wrote to their representatives at the EBRD, requesting that the bank suspend its support for revitalizing Ukraine’s nuclear power plants until a cross-border
assessment
is carried out.
As India’s economy modernizes, it is essential that policymakers design and implement a system of labor-market
assessment
that enables more relevant, timely, and accurate analysis of trends.
Estimates are based on the amount of labor and capital available for production and an
assessment
of their joint productivity.
Policymakers struggle to get their
assessment
right.
Estimates of short-term or current potential output are also constantly reworked, implying continuous change in the
assessment
of the underlying fiscal situation.
By that autumn, when a real-time
assessment
of fiscal performance was carried out, it had been revised sharply downward, by 0.2%.
Yet volatility in the
assessment
of potential growth prevents politicians from “owning” the already abstruse structural deficit and causes volatility in the policies based on this assessment, paradoxically resulting in a shortening of decision-makers’ time horizon.
A greater degree of stability in the
assessment
of an economy’s potential would strengthen decision-makers’ awareness and appreciation of longer-term challenges, thereby putting policymaking on a sounder footing.
In fact, one would be hard pressed to find broad agreement with Hollande’s
assessment
anywhere in Europe.
The next year, the financial crisis struck, convincing Putin that his
assessment
had been prophetic.
The new report by the United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), involving more than 120 scientists, economists, and technology specialists, provides that long-overdue
assessment.
The IPCC
assessment
points out that renewables are already growing.
However, if they are to be effective, they will require clear guidelines and a reliable framework for
assessment.
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