They noted that President Obama's commitment of 17percentt reduction on 2005 levels is only 4percentt below 1990 levels, which have been widely used as a benchmark in international scientific discussions.
Detailed discussion of the benchmarking literature is outside the scope of this paper, however, five key challenges in benchmarking are briefly highlighted here to help explain the aims of our study.
A detailed discussion of the results for benchmark set 1 can be found in the Supplementary Data.
"This process would enable leaders to review where countries ideally 'should' have reached in terms of human development and would fuel discussion of what steps have to be taken to be successful in relation to the benchmarks," Bellamy said.
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Benchmarks: Plays a variety of roles in group discussions; Asks questions to seek elaboration and clarification of ideas; Listens in order to understand a speaker's topic, purpose, and perspective; Conveys a clear main point when speaking to others and stays on the topic being discussed Visual Arts Standard 3 – Knows a range of subject matter, symbols, and potential ideas in the visual arts.
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