Fast-start actions could cover, for example, capacity building for integrating adaptation into development and poverty reduction strategies, as well as the implementation of pilot and urgent adaptation actions as identified in national action plans; capacity building in the area of mitigation, i.e. low-emission development strategies, nationally appropriate mitigation actions, and emissions monitoring, reporting and verification; capacity-building and pilot projects for ...[+++]sector-wide carbon market mechanisms; readiness and pilot projects for reducing emissions from developing country deforestation, and capacity building and pilot projects in technology cooperation.

Integrated social and economic strategies, trade policies that promote social development, investment policies that stimulate entrepreneurship, gender equality at work, local employment and skills, efficient labour market institutions and cooperation between social partners will therefore be crucial for development strategies.

If the behaviour and market strategies of the credit unions and caisses populaires were to change, I think we would have to look at the BDC mandate again, because it should be responding to what's happening in the market, not setting what's happening in the market.

They should form an essential component for an overall surveillance strategy to address the problem of antimicrobial resistance and in particular, to assess the potential link between the use of antimicrobial agents and the development of resistance among these pathogens.

- The proposal for the framework programme 2002-2006 on research and development identifies amongst the proposed priorities for community action "information society technologies" (with specific references to the knowledge based society and technologies for learning ) and "citizens and governance in the European knowledge society" (with specific references to education and training).Programmes to foster technological development and competitiveness: TEN-Telecom, promoting the deployment of trans-European services based on advanced telecommunications networks; eContent, supporting for the development of the digital content market and, mo ...[+++]re specifically, public-sector information resources and language technology; Go Digital, supporting small and medium-sized enterprises in their 'e-business' strategies, by using existing community programmes and initiatives; and an action plan in the field of standardisation, dealing with eLearning-related issues and accessibility for everyone.

At one point, Warren Everson of the Canadian Chamber of Commerce remarked that tariff reduction and trade agreements alone are not a market development strategy.