Core Objectives. Attract higher spending visitors who are likely to buy local products and able to repeat and recommend • Encourage visitors to spend more, by staying longer and increase the value of each visitor • Increase the ratio of staying visitors versus day visitors • Improve the perception of tourism and the impact of visitors with local communities • Deepen the economic value of tourism, especially across the Autumn and winter months through promoting year-round tourism activity including local accommodation, events, attractions and products to visitors, whilst being conscious of capacity of destinations. • Reduce the impact of transport - provide visitors with better information on ‘how to get here’ and how to get to and from attractions from major transport hubs, and work towards zero carbon targets • Grow new products such as business tourism and the development of business incentive travel itineraries • Sharpen business practice and assist business growth through sector specific business support programmes, encouraging businesses to expand their offer, develop their products and enter into new markets – e.g.skills, digital, accessible best practice , sustainable, business travel and events, international etc. • Deliver a digital programme designed to support the sector - Increase bookability and increase the bookable product offer to customers, e.g. assist businesses to replace ‘Guestlink’. • Improve the quality of tourism jobs – support initiatives to improve the quality of jobs across the tourism sector creating more year round employment opportunities. • Make tourism inclusive and available for all - support the development of inclusive tourism, create products with the right imagery and calls to action where everyone feels welcome. • Support the development of a sustainable accommodation mix, explore opportunities to increase the amount of accommodation/bedspaces working with planners to enable this growth. • Grow the international profile of Peak District, Derbyshire by working with key partners such as UKInbound, Destination Management Companies, and Visit Britain to increase international visits.
Core Objectives. 1. Provide an overall legislative program and strategy that advances the city's goals and objectives.
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Core Objectives. 2.2.1.1 The parties hereto agree to work together to remain the worldwide leader in the cochlear implant industry by maintaining our products and services as the gold standard.
Core Objectives. On a historic and per capita basis Chinese emissions of greenhouse gases (GHGs) remain low when compared with developed countries. In terms of future climate policy, however, China’s emissions present a major challenge as they are growing rapidly and according to the IEA will surpass those of the United States by the end of the decade. Understanding the sources, scale and timing of GHG emissions is fundamental to any country being able to understand its opportunities and costs of climate change action. Modeling such emissions is a foundational step in undertaking a sound national assessment of feasible mitigation policies and actions. As climate change is a global problem, a sound understanding of the significance of modeling results is also crucial for China’s negotiating partners and other international actors. The aim of Task 1 was to ensure: • there is a better analytical basis for understanding the various economic and energy models utilized to understand China’s current and future GHG emissions; and • to broaden understanding about the contribution various policy instruments could make in integrating climate change considerations into China’s environmental and developmental planning whilst maintaining security of energy supplies and satisfying legitimate developmental needs. As a time bound project, BASIC could not focus on all aspects of these challenges. The BASIC Project choose to focus on the link between modeling and policy because in recent years there was a major misalignment between ideas in climate literature on China’s role in future climate policy and the assumptions and outcomes coming out of various modeling exercises with a possible danger that models might misinform policy making. The BASIC meeting in China and resulting papers tried to illuminate the contribution and limits models could make to understanding Chinese emissions and mitigation opportunities and, based on that understanding, to spell out implications for choices about the kinds of policy instruments that might be developed at the domestic and international level to integrate climate mitigation into China’s sustainable development planning framework. This focus would support analytical work not just by the BASIC Team but also a wide range of policy makers and analysts who would need to work on China beyond the lifetime of the BASIC Project. The BASIC China Team comprised the following institutions and individuals. BASIC China Team Ministry of Science and Technology, China ...
Core Objectives. Climate change may turn out to be abrupt and rapid, rather than gradual and linear. Some degree of adaptation will be necessary as a result of emissions that cannot be reversed by mitigation. Impacts are likely to disproportionately affect developing countries and vulnerable groups. There is increased realization within the scientific and policy community that greater attention must be give to adaptation in both developed and developing countries. Unlike mitigation where a wide range of models and assessment tools were created by developed countries for their own use, the development of vulnerability assessment and adaptation (VA) tools has tended to lag behind. Activities and outputs under Task 2 were intended to support the evolution and implementation of climate policy in respect of adaptation at local, national and international level. These activities and outputs were assigned to the BASIC India Team, described below, as the Indian BASIC Team has a high degree of vulnerability and adaptation related expertise that could be more widely shared with BASIC and other developing countries. Although each country has unique natural endowments and circumstances and adaptation is context specific, India was chosen as the focus of VA work by BASIC as it has a wide range of geographic features include mountainous areas (Himalayas), coastal areas, northern plains, a peninsular plateau and islands. The premise was that India’s varied soils, climate, biodiversity and ecological regions would generate vulnerability and adaptation tools and methodologies that could be relevant outside the Indian context. Additionally, as around 650 million Indian people are dependent on rain (monsoon) dependent agriculture, it was considered that learning about how India will mainstream adaptation to make the livelihoods of these people more secure in a changing climate would generate important implementation lessons for other developing countries and for donors. These objectives would be pursed through: • BASIC linking in analytical work done by other networks and initiatives active on climate change adaptation at the local/community level on adaptation and vulnerability with those working on climate modelling and at the international level to ensure local and national needs were reflected in international policy; • mutual learning between BASIC countries about the experience and insights gained from the innovative preparation of India’s First National Communication which has support...
Core Objectives. The causes and impacts of climate change require actions at multiple levels of governance. This poses formidable policy coherence and institutional co- ordination challenges at the national and international level. Additionally, climate protection policies must command widespread support if they are to be implemented effectively over the long-term and this generates a need for extensive stakeholder engagement. Thus achieving policy coherence and mobilization of actors across all policy areas relevant to climate change is difficult. A critical part of enhancing the capacity of developing countries for future action is to pay more attention to legal, procedural and institutional issues relevant to policy coherence and institutional coordination. Task 3 of the BASIC Project addressed the challenge of policy coherence and institutional coordination with regards to climate change policy and implementation responses. The task was made up of three sub-components, all from a South African perspective, focusing on three aspects: • The institutional responses to climate change in South Africa, in particular those raised by the establishment of its National Committee on Climate Change; • Lessons from the implementation of the Clean Development Mechanism (CDM) in South Africa; and • Legal and institutional issues related to the UNFCCC and the Kyoto Protocol and their implementation via domestic legislation in developing countries. These issues were examined in three papers and summarized in a fourth overview paper which synthesizes the insights emerging from the South Africa’s Team’s work. In addition to working on the papers, the South Africa team gave regular briefings to the BASIC Team on the progress on the CDM internationally and experiences from other countries and contributed to Task 4 on how the lessons from and position of South Africa could be better taken into account in future international climate policy. A significant component of Task 3 also involved supporting South African stakeholder processes. This was achieved by the BASIC Team through activities centred around the October 2005 BASIC workshops in South Africa described below. South Africa Team Department of Environmental Affairs and Tourism (DEAT) Xxxxxxx Xxxxxx Xxxxxx Development Group Xxxx Xxxxxxxxx, Xxxxx Xxxxxxxxx, Xxxxxxx Xxxxx Imbewu Enviro-Legal Consultants Xxxxxxxxx Xxxxxxxxx, Xxxxxx Xxxxxx, Xxxxxxxx Xxxxxxxxx City of Cape Town Xxxxxxx Xxxxxxxxx Energy Research Centre, University of Cape To...
Core Objectives. The complexity of climate negotiations makes it difficult for developing countries to keep track of developments and to participate proactively in defining future international climate policy. The four BASIC developing countries have greater analytical and negotiating capacity than smaller developing countries but their resources are not commensurate with their needs given the size and structure of their economies and potential social and political implications of climate negotiations on development. These constraints and the lack of an institutional “home” for the G77/China to meet and reflect upon long term policy issues limit the ability of developing country negotiators to engage fully in all aspects of climate negotiations. Matters have become more complex in the years as the number of international fora where international climate policy is being considered has increased (G8 plus 5, UN General Assembly, AP6) to facilitate agreement among Kyoto and non Kyoto ratifying countries. Keeping up with the short term demands imposed by these multiple international processes often results in neglect of domestic processes and lack of time for longer term analytical work both of which are needed to ensure that national interests and circumstances can feed into and off all relevant international arenas. Activities and outputs under Task 4 were designed to support BASIC and other developing countries by: • making it easier for the developing countries to track particular UNFCCC/KP agenda items and to make the transmission of skills and knowledge possessed by one generation of negotiators to the next easier; • providing analysis and support, as needed by each country, on the quantification of various mitigation proposals, including through training on quantitative tools; • provision of oral and written briefings on international legal and procedural aspects of climate negotiations relating to a new agreement under the UNFCCC/KP; and • development of a comprehensive package of proposals for future international climate change policy which take into account the interests and circumstances of developing countries regarding mitigation, adaptation, financial resources and technology. Brazil Team Institute for Advanced Studies, University of São Xxxxx Xxxxxx Xxxxx Xxxxx Instituto de Eletrotécnica e Energia, University of São Paulo Xxxx Xxxxxxxxxx, Former Secretary of Environment of São Paulo State Faculty of Economics, University of São Paulo Xxxxxxx Xxxxxxxxxx BASIC Sup...
Core Objectives. Whilst their individual circumstances and interests vary hugely, developing countries generally continue to negotiate as a single political bloc with joint problem-solving being a well established, and preferred, norm for dealing with their economic, social and cultural diversity. But unlike developed countries who have the OECD Annex I Experts Group, developing countries have no institutional base to examine policy options collectively and few opportunities to meet to discuss climate policy outside of formal negotiations. The resulting limited degree of analytical support hampers the negotiation and implementation of climate policy at a time when developing countries are being asked to engage more deeply and rapidly into global climate change efforts and international climate policy processes are increasing in number and complexity. Against this background, Task 5 focused on the exploration of options that could result in the creation of developing country expert group or other institutional mechanism(s) to bring together developing country representatives and climate policy expertise on a long term basis.
