Presentations were given on medium and long term future global scenarios of the environmental impacts of economic development as well as scenarios of sustainable development in the context of global resource constraints.

The prospects for achieving the MDGs in Africa have improved considerably in recent years.

Xi Jinping said that everyone can be optimistic about Chinese economic development prospects.

I've been criticized for showing you a too positive image of the world, but I don't think it's like this.

The African landscape has been profoundly transformed since the formation of the African Union and the launching of the New Partnership for Africa's Development (NEPAD).

The Challenge describes forest landscape restoration and highlights its contribution to the MDGs and to national development processes.

Development context

A shared vision of development

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Landscaping.

Mr. Singh (World Conservation Union (IUCN)) said that in the context of the Millennium Development Goals the trading and financial system was fundamental to the promotion of a world association for development.

Positive steps are already being taken in a number of countries and regions.

We have reached the conclusion that the prospects for further progress are not good.

Poverty, trade and development prospects

It is an increasingly difficult picture, even assuming the economy does quite well probably better than it will do.

These realities and changing fundamentals in the South are helping to reshape the landscape of development cooperation.

Building scenarios for future global development means using models to encourage debate about global trends.

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It has 360 degree views.

An Optimistic Case for the Euro

You've got more scenery in this show... than there is in Yellowstone National Park.

To begin with, artificial landscapes, which I invented sort of, are used in cinema all the time.

So what happens next? Where do we go from there?

Forest Landscape Restoration Implementation

A castle as viewed from one side

Well, a room with a view.

Scenarios are not meant to be prescriptions for the future but are hypothetical sequences of events constructed for the purpose of focusing attention on how something might happen.

The new century has opened up a bright prospect for the development of mankind.

Wang Shusheng admitted that running a plant here faces a huge challenge of integrating with the local society, but he feels optimistic about the future development prospect.

If they'd sent a nuke, it would have been rather more spectacular than what actually happened last Monday.

Depletion and degradation of nature and its resources endanger the prospects for development for our generation and even more so for future generations.

The 2004 2005 global performance was a promising development.

4. Visions of ICTs for development

Population is at the core of development, and population trends are a key element of the context in which development takes place.

The World Conservation Union (IUCN) shared the view that trade was not an end in itself but a means of reducing poverty and achieving sustainable development.

The differences in the historical heritage of all countries, their cultural traditions, social and political structure, value systems and paths of development must not become a pretext for interference in the internal affairs of another State.

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Planning Palestinian national development challenges and prospects

That development has now raised our prospects for achieving part of the MDGs by 2015.

54. Regional and subregional development cooperation offers a range of opportunities for enhancing the development prospects of individual countries.

UNDP initiated the reflection on a long term vision for the Comoros, with the support of the Africa s futures project.

And it really changed the landscape of surgery.