No significant changes have occurred since then.

The programme performance reports cannot show the substantive changes that have taken place as a result of the conferences, but they can indicate the extent to which there was a change in the rhythm of programme activity.

As a result of the health reform process, the Ministry of Social Development itself has undergone significant changes in its structure and function.

No significant changes have occurred since the submission of those reports.

Change, however, was in the air.

The application of this variant will cause considerable variations in geographical distribution for certain Member States and will cause the overall Member State representation to change in important ways.

Accounting standards, however, generally preclude environmental costs being treated as a prior period adjustment unless there is a change in accounting policy or unless there was a fundamental error.

49. The Board considers that although the actual out of area expenditure may change, the policy approach for computing this proportion of expenditure should not be subject to frequent change.

C. Treaties exhibiting a varied or emerging likelihood of applicability

FAO has focused on monitoring the impact on agriculture, forestry and fisheries of serious weather anomalies around the world believed to be linked to the El Niño phenomenon.

There is a major transformation right now in economies throughout the region.

At the same time, it should be understood that should the situation change substantially, we may have to revert to the issue. (Signed) Jean Pierre Halbwachs

He stressed the importance of adaptation noting that climate change cannot be totally avoided and it may be more rapid and pronounced than currently suggested anticipatory adaptation is more effective and less costly than emergency measures and immediate benefits can be gained from better adaptation to climate variability and extreme events.

Secondly, the proposal is adaptable, as it would make it possible to take into account the emergence of new geopolitical realities through the process of potential re election.

This has changed dramatically in recent years.

83. The problem might well worsen, however, and become complicated with the large scale return of refugees.

Another participant noted that existing lacunae might well be intentional, but that circumstances might have changed.

Welcoming the important political change following the recent elections in the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia, and noting the significance of this change for the region as a whole,

Now, recently, it has been found that it can change a lot.

The mix of fuels used for electricity generation changed significantly in the United Kingdom in the period from 1990 to 1994.

The increased temperatures occasioned by climate change are likely to lead to greater frequency of life threatening weather systems.

The system can only show the total combined effect of the changes to the parameters.

It was clear from the findings of the IPCC that man was involved in climate change and that climate change posed major problems at the international level.

This could impose severe constraints on initiatives towards diversification.

The current survey has not shown such a remarkable pattern of change, but nevertheless one that is, in rather different ways, very significant.

The effect of atmospheric phenomenon on weather and climate variations is also important to be known.

Thus, steel products as a group were less dynamic than world exports but slightly more dynamic than commodities.

The application of this variant will change the overall Member State representation in important ways (see table 3).

Changes in climate could have significant impacts in some sectors and in some regions of the United Kingdom, both of a beneficial and of an adverse nature.

20. One such dramatic change occurs when a pegged or fixed exchange rate becomes unsustainable and has to undergo a discrete adjustment.

There are great discoveries yet to be made down there, fantastic creatures representing millions of years of evolution and possibly bioactive compounds that could benefit us in ways that we can't even yet imagine.

However, the figures may vary due to changes in the frequency of flights, weather conditions and other variables.

As to the supply side, there may be a switch in input mixes used in production and investment in favour of domestic products, although available statistics do not yet reveal significant changes.

Well, I think any change would be an improvement.

However the change has been more significant for rural women.

Indeed, the study may actually significantly underestimate the costs for instance, climate change may lead to more weather variability, a possible disappearance or major shift of the Gulf Stream of particular concern to Europe and a flourishing of disease.

(c) In the light of the greater prospects for the reduction of agricultural subsidies and trade barriers abroad, the ability of African producers to respond to changed market prices becomes relevant.

These disturbances resemble weather patterns, but clearly demonstrate that the upper atmosphere responds to processes arising at the surface of the Earth.

But the arrival of auscultation and percussion represented a sea change, a moment when physicians were beginning to look inside the body.

There is a major change in the peacekeeping situation as a result of which old methods can no longer be used to deal with logistic and personnel problems.

Profound changes in the security environment have created radically new and positive conditions for building a safer and more secure world.

It was expected that this trend would have significant effects on structural changes in the world's electronics sector in the near future.

Experience had also shown that these conditions could change significantly in a relatively short period of time within a duty station.

Yet climate change will hit Africa hardest, because it will cripple the continent s vulnerable agricultural sector, on which 70 of the population depends. All estimates of the possible impact of global warming suggest that a large part of the continent will become drier, and that the continent as a whole will experience greater climatic variability.

NEWPORT BEACH In a four day period in mid December, three seemingly unrelated developments suggested that modern central banking is in the midst of an historic change. The implications go well beyond academia and policy circles.