In June, Museveni created a department of science, technology and innovations, and its new minister, Elioda Tumwesigye, has already called for a substantive innovation fund.
Under its umbrella, we can help create a substantive global fund for adaptation and mitigation that can make the clean energy transition a "win win win" for energy, the environment, and the global economy.
This does require a substantive injection of funding into child mental health, for the voluntary sector, schools, community projects.
But he added that conferences could be "pretty substantive," despite the fund-raising that motivated them.
But they are going to stop short of substantive regulation of hedge funds or of unregistered hedge fund advisers".
Within arms' length expresses that there is a controlling, underlying public authority, by virtue of ownership (shares), right of appointment of governors, substantive (50 + %) funding, binding policy guidelines, and/or ex ante supervision - as opposed to a private organization being positioned independently, at arms' length; outside of government control.
Meanwhile the new features in the Cancún Agreements are largely institutional rather than substantive: a Green Climate Fund to channel assistance to poor countries, new rules on measuring and supporting rainforest protection, new processes of monitoring emissions, a committee to promote technology transfer, and another on adaptation.
The data gathered during this study would also provide useful information when planning a substantive trial and will assist funding bodies when considering investment in substantive trial funding.
The New York Times' Joe Nocera on why last week's Congressional hearings into hedge funds were unusually substantive.
By James Surowiecki November 17, 2008 The New York Times' Joe Nocera on why last week's Congressional hearings into hedge funds were unusually substantive.
