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"They're not requirements but aspirational targets – they are a starting point for negotiation".
What we'll see is another set of aspirational targets that will mean little if countries choose to ignore them.
These shouldn't be aspirational targets but instead be practical and achievable goals that flow directly from what the organisation is there to do.
In his recent Women on Boards report, Lord Davies recommended that FTSE 350 boards set aspirational targets and have 25% female representation by 2015.
Instead, he advocates aspirational targets, long-term monitoring and measures to open up the process of recruiting directors, including a requirement that nomination committees reveal the number of women on their shortlists.
The fund-management group is in the process of rewriting its policies for annual meetings and is telling companies that from 2015 it will vote against the chairman or the chairman of the nominations committee if they have not installed any women on the board, or if aspirational targets have not been set, or if disclosure about gender balance is inadequate.
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It is a voluntary, aspirational, target.
It sets an aspirational target for the customer experience United delivers".
However, a string of record-breaking months of heat in 2016 has raised concerns that a more aspirational target of a 1.5C limit is already out of reach.
The improvement programme's new director, Bill Mumford – who is chief executive of learning disability charity MacIntyre – describes the June deadline as "an aspirational target and not thought through".
Nevertheless, the ETF has set an aspirational target for college leadership and management to reflect the ethnic make-up of the student population by 2020.
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