An argument ensued on the day of the Guardian leak at a "stocktaking" meeting with John Hutton of the Department of Business, Enterprise and Regulatory Reform (DBERR) in the industry corner and Hilary Benn of Defra in the green corner.
The Americans are describing this as a mere stocktaking exercise; the Europeans as "timely and important".
It will, according to the Treasury, be a stocktaking exercise.
Mongolia's Transition to a Green Economy: A Stocktaking Report (UN-PAGE & Ministry of Environment and Green Development, Government of Mongolia, 2014).
The Financial Times quotes one person helping to operate the two-week trial, who said the trial was also "part of a stocktaking exercise" to assess the numbers of EU nationals living and working in Britain.
The 100-days routine is a stocktaking of every potential disaster, be it terrorist targeting, or matches taking place to empty stadiums, or being left, years later, with The Monorail To Nowhere.
He is author of Reckoning with Homelessness (Cornell University Press, 2003), a stocktaking of two decades of research, advocacy, and theoretical work, that was awarded the Anthony Award in Urban Anthropology.
Based on a systematic literature review (Ninitial sample = 1137 publications, Npreliminary sample = 32, Nfinal sample = 7), it represents a stocktaking exercise to evaluate the research methodologies used and findings reported in the emerging field of empirical research relating mindfulness to sustainable consumption.
Social audit is a stocktaking of where we are with these assumptions, guesses and intentions.
