The HEPAP plan ratifies the consensus hammered out at Snowmass, Colorado, last summer (ScienceNOW 24 July 2001) and calls for the host country to pay two-thirds of the bill.
The Every Newborn Action Plan, ratified at the World Health Assembly in 2014 (24) is focusing attention on unfinished business of the Millennium Development Goals and on the crucial time of birth in the lifecycle as being key to the post-2015 development agenda.
President Obama's plan to ratify a new arms-control treaty with Russia by the end of the year may have been obstructed by Senate Republicans.
A13 Europeans Delay Constitution Struggling to defuse the European Union's worst political crises in decades, the leaders of the 25 countries abandoned their plan to ratify their first constitution by next year.
Prime Minister Mikhail M. Kasyanov said Russia planned to ratify the Kyoto treaty "in the very near future".
The Irish government will report back to the next EU summit in October on how it plans to ratify the treaty – possibly in a second referendum next year.
Those countries planning to ratify Kyoto have now to find ways of bringing America back into the process of greenhouse-gas reduction.
Besides, six countries Britain, Ireland, Sweden, Denmark, Poland and the Czech Republic have made clear that, after the French and Dutch votes, they have no plans to ratify the constitution.
Barbara Hendricks, the German environment minister, said her country planned to ratify the deal "well ahead" of the next UN climate meeting in Marrakesh in November.
But the group plans to ratify calls for the International Monetary Fund to a play a stronger and more prominent role in monitoring the trade imbalances and, when necessary, publicizing them, a process that still must be worked out.
