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In its National Climate Change Program , China set an objective to lower its energy consumption per unit of GDP by 20% or so of 2005 level by 2010 and in its Mid- and Long-Term Plan for the Development of Renewable Energy , China also sets an objective of increasing the proportion of renewable energy in the primary energy mix to 10% by 2010, and to 15% by 2020.
Firstly, China succeeded in lowering its energy consumption per unit of GDP by 1.79%, 4.04% and 4.59% respectively for 2006, 2007, and 2008, which strongly suggests the prospect of meeting the 20% objective by 2010.
But the IMF is making every effort to help countries achieve the global objective of halving poverty by 2015, and as the numbers show, this is not just talk.
So, my second objective for Davos this year is for all leaders to recognize that along with their economic responsibilities come moral as well as social obligations.
Indeed, as regional conflicts have intensified, the country’s central foreign-policy objective of ensuring “zero problems” with its neighbors has become unattainable.
The objective should thus be to find new, more efficient modes of cooperation that avoid the issues and conflicts that have impeded accession negotiations.
In any upcoming talks with North Korea’s leader, Kim Jong-un, Trump will have to take care to prevent the Kim regime from achieving its long-standing objective of weakening those alliances.
Fighting malnutrition is the first step toward reaching this objective.
Instead, we are seeing the foreign-policy equivalent of muscle memory, with the players using familiar tactics, though with no clear objective in mind.
The answer is “no” if our objective remains forcing Iran to renounce all activity on centrifugation.
But this objective was also unattainable under President Mohammad Khatami, Ahmadinejad’s reform-minded predecessor.
The trouble with reaching definitive conclusions about this or any other contested aspect of India's distant past is that, unlike in neighboring China, there is little in the way of an objective historical record to rely upon.
If the objective was to send a message that “America is back,” one can only wonder who, exactly, is receiving that message and what their reaction is likely to be.
Border control cannot be the only – or even the primary – objective.
American policy toward Syria should now be guided by the specific objective of preventing the deployment of chemical weapons in and around Syria.
A second, broader objective should be to ensure a stable post-Assad transition that provides firm safeguards against the proliferation of Syria’s extensive chemical-weapons arsenal.
Of course, some past appointees turned out to be far better than anticipated; they rose to the occasion, despite qualifications that, in any open and objective selection process, would never even have left them on the short list.
But this seems like collateral damage from the pursuit of an overriding political objective.
Moreover, the force must have sufficient manpower, capacity, and funding to put this vital objective into practice efficiently.
Removing Syria as a threat is a key element in achieving this strategic objective.
Because we are concerned with machine behavior, we can be more objective in examining ethics than we would be in discussing human behavior, even though what we come up with should be applicable to humans as well.
Their primary objective is to forge a consensus for Lebanon’s future in the wake of the withdrawal of Syrian forces last year.
It has rightly been the prime objective of the High Representative for Bosnia, Paddy Ashdown.
Of course, given America’s objective military superiority, I would call it “asymmetrical multi-polarity.”
America must defend itself against terrorist attacks, but that cannot be allowed to become the overarching objective of its existence.
In fact, wealth accumulation remains the primary objective of Chinese households.
Achieving this objective will not be easy.
On the contrary, the North’s real objective has always been to ensure the survival of the Kim regime and, in the longer term, to secure the reunification of the Korean Peninsula under that regime’s leadership.
Indeed, in some countries, democracy fails to deliver imaginative and effective governance because the main objective seems to be to have all major groups on board.
Unemployment resulting from automation in the Chinese manufacturing sector could ultimately complicate China’s efforts to rebalance its economy toward increased domestic consumption – an objective that most economists agree is critical for the country’s long-term prosperity.
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