And most importantly, countries will have to roll up their sleeves and do the hard work of policymaking to drive their economies towards a low carbon and climate resilient future.
"I think we have to use that data to drive policymaking, and I'm very interested to see where that data takes us," he said.
I think that we have to use that data to drive policymaking".
In a democracy – particularly one, like the UK, where representation is winner-takes-all rather than proportional – the largest voting bloc is always going to be able to drive policymaking.
We should ensure that development and global health policymaking does not drive a wedge between the political negotiation process at the international level and local reality.
Think of it as an outsourcing of public policymaking instigated by a commercially driven entity.
U.S. policymaking toward Russia, however, has been driven by a perception that Russian actions, as guided by Putin, are empire-focused and therefore cannot be dealt with through strategies other than containment.
Looked at through a wider lens, the chancellor's budget appears to have driven a wedge between sound policymaking and the emerging centre of gravity in British politics.
Harper's government had been extremely unpopular with scientists, who accused it of ignoring evidence in policymaking, preventing government researchers from speaking publicly about their work, and focusing too much funding on commercially driven applied research.
Although the concept of evidence-based policymaking has received wide support, Paul Boyle, chief executive of the Economic and Social Research Council, said it is vital that the What Works network "must be a genuine partnership of all stakeholders" and not "seen to be driven solely from the centre of government".
