albertmartinez/OSDG huggingface dataset:
The inconsistency in results for the different measures of GVC participation leads us to believe that further distinctions of integrated border management need to be explored. Indeed, the coordination of delivery times and multiple inputs into production at specific stages does require effective performance and coordination by a wider range of agencies than we are able to capture at the moment. The eleven indicators are composed of approximately one hundred variables and are consistent with the families of articles covered in the recently adopted WTO Trade Facilitation Agreement.
(Sustainable Development Goal: sdg9)
As a source of both food and income, uncontrolled hunting during that time has significantly affected the status of the populations of all major game species. Currently, neither entity has a full inventory of hunting species and only fragmentary data on species populations is available for a limited number of hunting areas. Hunting areas can be allocated to associations of hunters, forest enterprises or private registered companies, or national parks (in RS).
(Sustainable Development Goal: sdg15)
In many cases, those with greater experience in decision-making processes and greater social and political capital may dominate those processes. The case of Hurricane Katrina, referred to in chapter II, provides a good example in this regard. It has been argued that the Industrial Canal, bounding the Lower Ninth Ward to the west, which failed and flooded the city of New Orleans, was constructed in that area partly owing to the limited political power of its residents. During the recovery period, those same residents had less access to the political resources needed to draw attention to their specific needs. V of Report on the World Social Situation 2016 (United Nations, forthcoming) elaborates on the policy areas that are relevant for equitable and inclusive societies.
(Sustainable Development Goal: sdg13)
It is necessary to assess to what extent the issue will be reduced if the option is successfully implemented. Accordingly, policy makers may prefer quick fixes to eliminate the symptoms rather than addressing the roots of the problems: If you don't have enough capacity, just ask the system operator to add new capacity! This is simple to understand, has visible effects and keeps the lights on.
(Sustainable Development Goal: sdg7)
The seven countries listed in Table 4 provided 27.4% of the GEF 5 replenishment (2010-14), approximately USD 1.19 billion. For the GCF’s initial resource mobilisation (2015-18), the countries listed have each provided between USD 44 000 and USD 100 million, depending on their relative capacities. The IDFC (2015) also indicated that its member development banks in non-OECD countries committed USD 3.1 billion in 2014 to mitigation and adaptation projects in other non-OECD countries. Developing countries have also been active in establishing multilateral organisations that could contribute to climate finance.
(Sustainable Development Goal: sdg13)
Pressurised fluid storage (often referred to as compressed air energy storage) represents a very small percentage of the total. There has been no obvious acceleration in the rate of invention. The converse is true of France. Both Sweden and Switzerland have relatively higher counts than is generally found in other fields. In terms of technology types, active power filtering, superconducting transmission lines and flexible AC transmission systems make up almost two-thirds of the total claimed priorities (Figure 4.8). This is a first (and necessary) step in determining whether public support for RD&D in the area of energy storage and grid management will lead to increased penetration of renewable energy in the grid.
(Sustainable Development Goal: sdg7)
This could be done either by switching from stable feed-in tariffs to feed-in premiums that provide a fixed mark-up over market prices or from subsidies for deployment rather than for production. Both would provide renewable producers with an incentive at least not to produce at maximum capacity in times of negative prices and thus provide better remuneration also for dispatchable capacity. The very question, however, shows how scenarios with very large shares of intermittent renewables, say above 30% of electricity production, begin to require adjustments that create intrinsic ceilings to the original objective.
(Sustainable Development Goal: sdg7)
It only covers the “direct” budget to finance the actions and programmes explicitly included in the Plan. It does not cover the so-called “indirect” budget expenditures that include other government expenditures devoted to R&D and innovation such as DURSI’s contribution to the salaries of university personnel devoted to R&D activities (EUR 800 million) and sectoral ministry financing of R&D activities undertaken by institutions under their authority, mainly the Health and Agriculture ministries (EUR 400 million). Same definitions for budget executed in 2007. The acronyms used in the table include: DURSI=Ministry for Universities, Research and Information Society, DTI= Ministry of Employment and Industry, DEIF=Ministry of Economy and Finance, AGAUR=Agency for Management of University and Research Grants, ICREA= Catalan Institution for Research and Advanced Studies, DGR= Directorate General of Research in DURSI, CIDEM= Centre for Innovation and Business Development, ICF=Catalan Institute of Finance, and SEE= Secretary of Industry and Energy.
(Sustainable Development Goal: sdg9)
They progressively account for less of the population as they move closer to cities, comprising 7% of the population in outer regional areas, 4% in inner regional areas and 1.5% in major cities (ABS, 2013c). For the most remote communities, services are limited. People may live hundreds of kilometres from their nearest major centre, with limited transport.
(Sustainable Development Goal: sdg3)
The UN Special Rapporteur states clearly that transition from segregated, special education to inclusive education is not a simple matter, and the complex issues it raises must be squarely faced. For example 'integration', often in the guise or in the place of true inclusion in education, has created its own difficulties. Attempts at integration into mainstream schools without accompanying structural changes in organisation, the curriculum, and teaching and learning strategies, have failed to meet the educational rights of disabled persons. Integration may simply lead to exclusion in the mainstream rather than in special schools.
(Sustainable Development Goal: sdg4)
The information on climate-related development finance presented in this paper is derived from the analysis of data contained in the DAC Credit Reporting System (CRS) database, using the Rio marker methodology. The Rio Conventions were established in 1992 on Climate Change, Biological Diversity and Desertification. Developed country Parties committed to assist developing countries in the implementation of these Conventions. The Rio markers use a scoring system of three values, in which development cooperation activities are “marked” as targeting the environment or the Rio Conventions as the “principal" objective or a “significant" objective, or as not targeting the objective.
(Sustainable Development Goal: sdg13)
However, funding from international partners is likely to gradually decline in the years to come. Funbio was mandated by the MMA to carry out the financial management of the programme (Box 5.8), which receives large international donations (Germany is the largest donor). The Amazon Fund also helps finance the ARPA programme and other activities to control deforestation, including in protected areas (Chapter 4).
(Sustainable Development Goal: sdg15)
Despite strong growth of organic farming in Ile-de-France in recent years, it still lags behind some areas of Germany, and current output is not keeping pace with rising demand. With respect to water, the greatest potential for green growth lies in alternative water management (rainwater management, green roofs, rainwater harvesting, filtering gardens) and the development of clean technologies (nanotechnology, seawater desalination). In Ile-de-France, it is above all in the area of R&D that job creation may be achievable, thanks especially to the presence of many research laboratories attached to large companies.
(Sustainable Development Goal: sdg9)
The government has been developing taxes and subsidies to shift relative prices especially to favour the use of renewable energy sources. There will still be the need for laws and regulations to complement market instruments in areas where competitive markets are not sufficiently developed, such as electricity and water. Several privately-operated recycling processes, such as deposits for glass bottles, collection of PET14 bottles and the collection of scrap metal, are well established. As in many countries, there is informal recycling by way of people prospecting for reusable materials in garbage containers and landfills. So far little progress has been made with the separation of recydates from the rest of household and commercial garbage.
(Sustainable Development Goal: sdg12)
In total, 3 786 adults responded. Visitors: those who had visited a Parks Canada-administered national park in the last three years, nonvisitors: those who had never visited a Parks Canada-administered national park. A survey conducted in 2012 revealed that 44% of Brazilians did not know what a protected area was, only 1% of those who had knowledge of protected areas believed that their purpose was recreation and tourism (MMA, 2012).
(Sustainable Development Goal: sdg15)
It is a strategy for making women’s as well as men's concerns and experiences an integral dimension of the design, implementation, monitoring and evaluation of policies and programmes in all political, economic and societal spheres so that women and men benefit equally and inequality is not perpetuated. The ultimate goal is to achieve gender equality.” ( United Nations General Assembly, 1997, ch. In addition, paragraph 203(b) recommends that national women’s machineries “have clearly defined mandates and authority, critical elements would be adequate resources and the ability and competence to influence policy and formulate and review legislation." Many of these institutions actually engage in a full range of research and operational activities, as is described in detail below.
(Sustainable Development Goal: sdg5)
Through interviews, views were elicited from selected international climate finance stakeholders representing climate finance recipient and provider countries, as well as experts from international organisations and research institutions. Identified enabling conditions reveal common grounds and differences across stakeholder groups. This offers a possible starting point for further dialogue aiming to advance the international climate and development finance agendas in a harmonised manner.
(Sustainable Development Goal: sdg13)
This paper reflects on diaspora as an ethnographic method. Grounded in a decolonial critique of colonial methodologies (including an evaluation of transnational scholarship), it discusses how diaspora provides intellectual and practical tools for ethnography, tools grounded in the appreciation for the relational, dialogical and poetic qualities of social and cultural life and invested in decolonial approaches to knowledge and power. This paper is not another call for a one-size-fits-all approach to ethnographic methods, but instead reflects on the knots of ethnographic enquiry around three outer East London youth clubs, between 2008 and 2012. In so doing, it highlights a number of debates pertinent to this Special Issue: how to think and do ethnography with young people in a changing migratory and racialised landscape, how to engage transformations in youth culture, and how to address digital technologies.
(Sustainable Development Goal: sdg16)
This article aims to present, in the conception of People with Disabilities (PcD) graduates of professional training, the contribution of this training to its inclusion in the world of work. An exploratory and descriptive research was conducted, with a qualitative cross-sectional approach. The procedures were: bibliographic, documentary and field research. Semi-structured interview script was the instrument applied in data collection. Twenty-eight interviews were conducted with PcD graduates from the professional training of SENAI/SP and applied the technique of content analysis. The NVivo 12 software was used in data analysis. The results indicate that, in the conception of graduates, professional training enables the discovery of their abilities and potentialities, allows them to be productive, interact in the work environment and contribute to society, feeling included. It was found that there were positive impacts on the lives of all subjects, related to the rescue of values such as self-esteem, autonomy and citizenship.
(Sustainable Development Goal: sdg16)
The top three African countries that have the highest e-waste generation per inhabitant are: Seychelles (11.5 kg/ inh), Libya (11 kg/inh), and Mauritius (8.6 kg/inh). Only a handful of countries in the continent have enacted e-waste-specific policies and legislation. Recycling activities are dominated by ill-equipped informal sectors, with related inefficient resource recovery and environmental pollution. Most African countries are currently developing various models of ERR schemes as part of their solution to the e-waste problem.
(Sustainable Development Goal: sdg12)
Both organisations look forward to continuing to join forces and support countries across the world in their effort to implement the New Urban Agenda. During the Habitat III process, the role of NUPs in supporting the implementation of the New Urban Agenda and other urban-related global agendas was increasingly recognised, and a range of tools and frameworks to assess NUPs have been discussed across international organisations and within national governments in countries. It establishes the foundation for understanding how and in what forms NUPs have been developed, implemented and monitored globally.
(Sustainable Development Goal: sdg11)
In all three countries, children in households where adults work less than half of the potential time are significantly more likely to be both poor and deprived in at least one dimension, or deprived only, but less likely to be poor but not deprived. Everything else being equal, the odds of simultaneous poverty and deprivation are significantly higher for rural children and children in large families in Finland and Romania, for children in non-owner occupied housing in Finland and the United Kingdom, for children in migrant households in Finland, and for those with one or two parents not present in the household (i.e. children in lone parent families) in Romania. Although the present analysis barely scraped the surface of EU-MODA, it demonstrated that the framework can be applied to both newer and older EU member states using child specific deprivation data from the ad-hoc deprivation module of the EU-SILC 2009. This serves as a baseline for future analysis using child deprivation indicators from the forthcoming waves of the EU-SILC.
(Sustainable Development Goal: sdg1)
Taking this on board, and a growing body of evidence that shows that teachers’ professional development can have a positive impact on student performance and teachers’ practice (Yoon et al., Some jurisdictions and national organisations have also developed professional learning standards or their equivalent (e.g. Learning Forward, 2011, AITSL, 2012, GTCS, 2012), highlighting that standards for teaching need to be complemented by standards which ensure high quality learning opportunities for teachers and other practitioners. An OECD initiative on Improving School Leadership concluded that leadership development needs to be a lifelong learning process through different stages in the school leadership career (Pont et al.,
(Sustainable Development Goal: sdg4)
Data for Japan refer to respondent and spouses aged 20-64 and there is no information on earnings for other household members. On average their risk of falling into the bottom of the income distribution is very similar to that of standard worker households: only about 7% of mixed households are found in the lowest income quintile. There are, however, some country differences, with the shares ranging from below 2% in Australia to around 15% in Luxembourg. Mixed SW/NSW households fare slightly better in the distributional position than SW households in all countries with the exception of Portugal.
(Sustainable Development Goal: sdg1)
Here we discuss two main constraints faced by MSMEs following the crisis, namely limited access to finance and taxation, and skills development, and provide examples of recovery measures that have been put in place to address them. During the crisis, access to finance was tightened even more for small-sized businesses in many regions, and developing Asia was no exception. Many governments responded by loosening monetary policy and providing stimulus through fiscal policies and tax reductions, in order to help enterprises maintain working capital and retain workers. Policy measures have been put in place to assist MSMEs access credit through loans for small sized businesses. Credit guarantees and fund trusts for micro and small enterprises have also been set up, as well as duty reductions and the elimination of tax refunds.
(Sustainable Development Goal: sdg8)
Using words and phrases that are unfamiliar to local farmers, as technical people often do, can lead to misunderstandings and confusion. By speaking the same language, and by using farmer representatives who are leaders in their community, there is considerably more uptake and credibility in the trading programme. This peer-to-peer networking therefore improves communication and understanding of the programme. They are paid for their time and expenses, and in one year, 110 site visits cost CAD 4 500.
(Sustainable Development Goal: sdg6)
Some studies suggest that forests and trees can provide around 20 percent of income for rural households in developing countries, and that income from forests is proportionately more important for the livelihoods of the poorest households. The proportion of people relying on woodfuel varies, from 63 percent in Africa to 38 percent in Asia and 16 percent in Latin America. Globally, 840 million people collect woodfuel and charcoal for their own use.
(Sustainable Development Goal: sdg15)
Serbia has developed and implemented a system of permitting of waste management activities and is improving its control over the transboundary movement of waste. In 2013, data were delivered by 106 of 168 companies. Data reported from some companies are still based on estimates, although the Regulation on the methodology for collecting data on the composition and quantities of municipal waste on the territory of the local government unit (OG 61/10) prescribes the methodology for analysing the amount and composition of solid waste in local government areas.
(Sustainable Development Goal: sdg12)
This chapter focuses on the wide array of support that is needed for innovation. It examines the public research system, investment in knowledge infrastructure and general purpose technologies, the importance of knowledge flows, networks and markets, and how governments can be innovative actors in the delivery of public services. Private investment may be below a socially optimal level, mainly because returns are uncertain or innovators cannot appropriate the optimum benefits of their investment.
(Sustainable Development Goal: sdg9)
These agree with the recommendations made by the OECD in its study Meeting the Water Reform Challenge (OECD, 2012b). In 2015, water and sanitation should no longer be a modest component of the seventh Millennium Development Goal but rather a fully fledged priority. Multiple partners and water management stakeholders should be brought together in an atmosphere conducive to trust.
(Sustainable Development Goal: sdg6)
African LDCs such as Burkina Faso, Mauritania and United Republic of Tanzania recorded volatility coefficients as high as 0.40, compared with a modest 0.11 in the economies of the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) (Beintema et al., Several of the latter have to some extent benefited from the Asian green revolution, which relied heavily on productivity improvements in the cultivation of a few staples: rice, wheat and maize. Sub-Saharan Africa, by contrast, has very diversified farming systems, of which FAO has identified 14 major varieties, ranging from near-desert to forest-based systems, with significant diversity within each major category (AfDB et al.,
(Sustainable Development Goal: sdg2)
Many of the experiences come from clean-tech clusters that started from small origins in other industries and developed through branching processes favoured by procurement, centres of excellence, start-up funding, collaborative innovation projects, and eco-city development. These are all elements of the policy approach that should be applied to growing clean-tech in the Negev.
(Sustainable Development Goal: sdg7)
Norway has a comprehensive education system until the age of 16 and high enrolment in pre-primary education. At upper secondary level, there is strong supply and student uptake of vocational education and training, but completion rates in general or vocational programmes are low compared to the OECD average. Tertiary education attainment is higher than the OECD average, resulting in a highly skilled workforce with a relatively small wage premium due to low income differential in Norway.
(Sustainable Development Goal: sdg4)
This article, along with this special symposium, engages with the lasting significance of Neil Smith's Uneven Development: Nature, Capital, and the Production of Space 25 years after its publication. Few books have made such productive contributions to expanding the horizons of political economy, particularly the spatiality of political economy, as has Uneven Development. This introductory article explores some of these aspects of the book's significance for the readership of New Political Economy, it remarks on the lasting if not growing significance of Smith's intellectual and political contributions two and a half decades after one of his, and the discipline of geography's, crowning achievements. At the same time it foreshadows ways in which the text can continue to push our understanding of the interconnections among nature, capital and the production of space.
(Sustainable Development Goal: sdg16)
They are encouraged to go beyond the confines of the case study itself, to contact the school directly and to examine other resources readily available on the web. The BC school is now working as part of a small network of nature-based schools throughout the province to transform their settings. Another CIEL participant, a principal of Aboriginal ancestry in a remote community, is using the case study from Vilna, Finland as a model for creating a school with high levels of self-regulation and appreciation for the natural world.
(Sustainable Development Goal: sdg4)
Today, the Nordic Region is one of the most digitized in the world with the most advanced digital public service. Despite this commitment however remote areas experience challenges when it comes to health care and service maintenance for remote and sparsely populated areas. Digital health solutions may provide one solution to growing social inequality in the area of health, as described in the chapter of health and welfare.
(Sustainable Development Goal: sdg14)