Local authorities have the power to issue such bonds, and with increased devolution they should be encouraged to do so to fund flood defences and to reduce carbon emissions by improving energy efficiency in all the nation's 30 million buildings.
Repeated hypoglycaemic episodes are known to impair glucose counter-regulatory defences and to reduce hypoglycaemic awareness [ 1– 3].
The imperative for the Tories is to establish that Mr Clegg is a pro-immigration sycophantic Europhile with no policy whatsoever, beyond defence cuts, to reduce the crippling burden of the national debt.
While certain honeybees have defence strategies to reduce damage, including forming a mass of bees around the hornet, raising the temperature to a lethal 45C, Fera says the European honeybee is less effective at this "heat-balling".
One company the government is highlighting here is Netcraft for "automated defence techniques to reduce the impact of cyber-attacks by hackers, stopping viruses and spam emails ever reaching their intended victims for example".
Reducing the rate of runoff from the upper reaches of a catchment will reduce the volume and peak flows of flood events downstream, thus allowing flood defences to be reduced in size, decreasing the corresponding capital costs.
In January 2012, it was reported that the future of station was under review by the Ministry of Defence as part of efforts to reduce defence spending.
Moscow is concerned that advances in US missile defence capabilities threaten to reduce the effectiveness of its nuclear deterrent.
Along with ending conscription the defence minister wants to reduce the size of the armed forces, from 250,000 to 185,000, while increasing the number that can be deployed on foreign missions.The reform would redefine the roles of the top generals, shut down bases and slim the bureaucracy.
As a result, George Bush and Vladimir Putin agreed to hold talks about linking America's plans to build a missile-defence shield to reducing the stockpiles of nuclear weapons held by both countries.
