II. FUTURE REDUCTIONS IN NON PROGRAMME COSTS

6. The costs of disarmament and arms reductions

In some countries administrative costs were higher than spending on poverty reductions.

Other than posts, the changes in field office costs are mainly reductions in other staff costs, operating expenses and furniture and equipment.

Given the incidence of personnel versus non personnel costs in the Organization apos s cost structure, reductions of the magnitude set by the Assembly cannot be achieved without reductions in staff costs also for Professional posts. quot

These reductions are attributable to the shift of costs related to other resources.

The total increase of 1,550,100 towards security costs have been partially offset by reductions in other programmes.

The world is buzzing at the moment with plans to force reductions in gas emissions at all costs.

The decrease under this heading is caused by the combined effect of reductions in salaries ( 1,215,300) and common staff costs ( 5,526,400).

It reflected a decrease of US 2,271,400, or two per cent, from 2004 2005, involving reductions in such non post costs as contractual services, operating expenses and office equipment, as well as reductions in general service posts.

Furthermore, the reductions under common staff costs reflect both the realized vacancy rates described above and the lower than budgeted actual rate of common staff costs ( 5,526,400).

This increase was partially offset by the reconfiguration of UNMIBH s air support and reductions in premises accommodation, communications spare parts and miscellaneous supplies costs.

9. The Advisory Committee points out that the timing of these reductions in personnel and costs is not explained in the statement of the Secretary General.

This was mainly achieved by a decrease in staff and other personnel costs ( 542,606 in 1997, compared with 760,020 in 1996), resulting from staff reductions and the transfer of staff costs to Special Purpose Grants Fund projects financed by donor contributions.

Optimists see it differently. Encouraged by sharp reductions in households debt service costs and a surprisingly steep fall in unemployment, they argue that the long nightmare has finally ended.

reporting reductions in absolute discharges

Information on such sources should include details of measures being implemented to tackle greenhouse gas emissions, the expected reductions in emissions and the costs for the different sectors.

Others said that any further reductions should be reviewed in the context of the ongoing United Nations reform process. 52. Several delegations, however, expressed their concern that administrative costs were increasing, and stressed that such costs should be kept down.

While welcoming reductions in strategic nuclear warheads, Norway underlines the need for verifiable, transparent and irreversible reductions.

For these reasons, appropriate reductions are being applied to the standard costs in the budget covering the period from 1 July 1999 to 30 June 2000, which is being prepared.

47. A precise procedure must be established so as to preserve the integrity of the process by which non programme costs of the Organization are reduced and thereafter reallocated, in the case of administrative and conference service costs, to a Development Account or to programme outputs, in the case of information costs. Without such a procedure, the benefit of such reductions in non programme costs could be lost in succeeding bienniums.

The contribution made by N2O emission reductions to overall emission reductions declines in all Parties throughout the period.

2. Reductions

At this stage, the Committee notes that these investments in information and communication technology (ICT) infrastructure have not yet produced any discernible reductions in the costs for travel of staff or pouch services.

c Emission reductions from the transportat sector include reductions in emissions associated with the use of international bunker fuels.

29. In paragraph 7, the Secretary General indicated that budget implementation in 1996 1997 had been particularly challenging owing to the need to achieve the necessary savings other than through significant reductions in staff costs.

Reducing sea turtle mortality through reductions in longline bycatch would save money by reducing the need for costly, emergency sea turtle conservation efforts that are not calculated in the true costs of industrial fishing.

The Department had correctly identified its priority management tasks, and the savings found in most administrative areas indicated that the Secretariat had focused seriously on the goal of securing significant reductions in overhead costs.

And Italy s parliament rejected many of Monti s proposed reductions in government spending. Labor and many product markets remain closed, despite the urgent need to increase competition, lower production costs, and raise productivity.

For oil importing sub Saharan African countries, the additional costs would have to be accommodated by reductions in reserves, non oil imports and domestic demand, with a potential serious impact on poverty.

Further reductions in import tariffs of consumer goods

further reductions in US and Russian nuclear forces.

Information on emission reduction units, certified emission reductions, temporary certified emission reductions, long term certified emission reductions, assigned amount units and removal units

114. Also calls upon the United Nations funds, programmes and specialized agencies to ensure, to the extent possible, that savings resulting from reductions in transaction and overhead costs accrue to development programmes in programme countries

Cities are declaring bankruptcy to escape the pressure of exponentially rising pension and health costs. In contrast to the state, cities have even cut back essential services, including 20 reductions in police and fire personnel.

Reductions in subsidies and improved cost recovery for those who can afford to pay can help to finance operation and maintenance costs, ensure quality and reliability of service and encourage water use efficiency.

1 Emission reduction units, certified emission reductions, including temporary certified emission reductions and long term certified emission reductions, assigned amount units and removal units.

In my statement earlier today, I said very clearly that while Parties had to do their fair share of emissions reductions, a way had to be found to reduce the disparity in abatement costs between countries.

There have been considerable reductions in nuclear weapons arsenals.

This target level of income is designed to allow the Office to cover its administrative costs, maintain its reserves and provide some flexibility in the event of unexpected reductions in project activity in the course of a biennium.

Reductions at national level

Reductions by large consumers

Preliminary estimate of reductions

That was the first time that the Administration had deviated from the previous practice of using New York based standard salary costs and making arbitrary mission specific reductions on standard common staff costs to take into account the number of mission appointees.

In all reporting Parties the contribution made by CO2 emission reductions to overall greenhouse gas emission reductions stays constant or increases over time.