World community

The world community has its own Scheduled chemical list with regard to agents of chemical warfare. Schedule I refers to those substances used exclusively for warfare such as the nerve gases, sulfur mustards, nitrogen mustards, and Lewisites. These are overtly banned. 

The technology exists to solve the majority of these problems, but the solutions require skills unavailable in the Thiid World community. Building the capital systems common in developed countries is beyond the resources of Third World countries. Provision of effective technologies that use some of the techniques discussed in this book could be useful in this regard. Our laboratory, in part, is dedicated to this pursuit. 

In June, 1990, the EPA and International Association for Clean Technology (IACT) are holding an international conference in Washington, D.C. to explore the innovative technologies and socio-economic issues related to pollution prevention/waste reduction. This three-day conference will examine principles and effects in the adoption of clean technologies and clean products throughout the world community. 

Recent terrorist attacks on October 12, 2002, in Bali, Indonesia, showed that the homemade and industrial explosive bombs present a serious threat to the world community. These terrorist activities generated enormous demand for rapid identification of nitroaromatic explosives at the site of terrorism. The decentralized detection of explosives at low concentrations is fundamental for safety of civilized people. The ideal counter-terrorism detection device should allow the security forces to make the important decision concerning evacuating, barricading, effective decontamination of particular site or efficient pursuing of suspects. 

In the course of further development of science and technologies the whole world community will get a new level of services based on achievements of modem science. 

Harnessing advanced achievements of science, technique and technology, the mankind steadily moves forward in its development. However, the problems associated with ecology and efficient use of regenerated power sources were of secondary importance for a time. Chernobyl disaster is the warning to the World Community. It exposed the need for near-term development, manufacturing and commercial utilization of environmentally friendly types of power. 

When George Washington first took the oath I have just sworn to uphold, news traveled slowly across the land by horseback and across the ocean by boat. Now the sights and sounds of this ceremony are broadcast instantaneously to billions around the world. Communications and commerce are global. Investment is mobile. Technology is almost magical, and ambition for a better life is now universal. 

While the global organic fibre market is now worth around US 800 million , conventional cotton farmers across the world continue to use some US 2 billion of chemicals per year, within which at least US 819 million are classified as hazardous , and cause substantial damage to the well-being of developing world communities and their environment. 

Disarmament, chemical or otherwise, is an ongoing political process. Since the inception of the CWC, the world community has taken many positive steps in order to achieve the goals set out in its detailed provisions. Indeed, there have been enduring and positive highlights in the implementation of the CWC. ... 

It is common for a disaster to affect more than one country at a time, or to cross borders. Disasters that involve multiple nations create additional obstacles that must be effectively addressed in order for humanitarian efforts to be successful. The two primary obstacles faced by disaster relief professionals are those of communication and transport. The success or failure of the communication and transport systems in any disaster response will influence the overall outcome of the relief effort. In the developed world high-tech communications systems are often ineffective in disaster situations. Equally, in the developing world, communication and transport may not have existed in the first place. Irrespective of location, disasters will result in communication and transport difficulties. Those involved in disaster response must always have a well-thought-out and easy-to-use communication and transport plan. 

The earliest polyurethane foams were water (COj) blown. In the late 1950s CFC-11 was discovered to be an excellent blowing agent for polyurethane foams, especially low-density foams, fhe development of the Ozone Depletion Theory in the late 1970s and its further refinement in the 1980s linked CFCs to a reduction of ozone in the upper atmosphere. As a result of the concern of such ozone reduction causing an increase in ultraviolet (UV) radiation at ground level the world community produced the "Montreal Protocol on Substances that Deplete the Ozone Layer" in late 1987 (9). 

The 1995 Tokyo subway incident involved sarin release, which killed 12 and sent over 500 people to hospitals. This incident vividly illustrates how the world community and each individual nation continue to face the real threat of casualties from chemical warfare agents used for terrorist purposes. Since those critical events, however, the preparedness of health-care providers in developed countries towards best countering of chemical terrorist attacks has not significantly improved. 

The world community would have benefited from lighter cars, reduced fuel consumption and reduced greenhouse gas emission. 

Currently there is considerable interest in the world community for the United States to harmonize its laws with those of the rest of the industrialized world and adopt the first-to-file system. Although efforts have been made in the United States to adopt the first-to-file rule, there has been considerable resistance to such a change. Adoption of a first-to-file rule does not appear likely in the near future. Should... 

Global Distribution. The social revolution now sweeping the planet is resulting in many developments—the industrialization of the world community, universal improvements of living standards, and a vast proliferation of communications in many forms. These developments interdict national boundaries. 

About 5 years ago, the world community started creating a satellite system for oil spill monitoring [314]. The main goals of such systems are the early detection of accidental oil spills, progress of oil spills to support containment and clean-up intervention, identification of culprits in the case of intentional discharges, and for law enforcement purposes. The main oil spill control methods are ... 

The most widespread and most open use of chemical weapons on a battlefield in recent decades was by Iraq in its conflict with Iran. This time the evidence of chemical use was conclusive. Undetonated shells were sampled and their contents were analyzed by several laboratories in Europe. A vesicant or blister agent (mustard) and a nerve agent (tabun) were identified. About 100 Iranian soldiers with chemical wounds were sent to European hospitals for care their wounds were consistent with vesicant (mustard) injury. A team appointed by the U.N. secretariat went to Iranian battlefields and hospitals and found chemical shells and patients with chemical injuries. The public outcry at the use of these weapons was less than overwhelming. Ignoring protests from the world community, Iraq continued to use these agents. 

The oil palm flourishes in the humid tropics between 7 or eventually 10 degrees north and south latitude, in other words in the central belt of tropical rainforests. Rainforest destruction with its attendant elimination of wildlife and biodiversity is a concern not only of environmentalists but of large parts of the world community. 

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