An interim report by the Great Barrier Reef Water Science Taskforce delivered to the government this month found that targets to improve water quality around the reef will be difficult without significant increases in funding and dramatic changes to government policy.
After the 2003 blackout, a joint American-Canadian taskforce delivered a withering 228-page report highlighting the failings of the utilities which, among other things, had not been regularly monitoring the condition of transmission lines.Each of the taskforce's 46 recommendations has been implemented, or soon will be.
The ministerial taskforce on child protection is already working hard on plans for delivering a first class public service in this demanding and specialist area of practice.
Even if all the £1.25bn helped ensure that 70,000 extra children received help, and pledges made in the recent NHS mental health taskforce report were delivered, many young people would still not get the help they need, Stevens said.
300 military personnel making up the existing UK taskforce, focusing on delivering support to the Sierra Leone government.
Putting people in the picture 'It would be a funny organisation that didn't consider people central to success,' says Denise Kingsmill, head of the DTI taskforce on human capital management, which has just delivered its final report, Accounting for People.
Minutes from the policy and regulation taskforce meeting of April 19, 2007 show that the platform delivered joint platform positions to a range of EC bodies on issues such as the inclusion of CCS in the EU ETS carbon market to the Environment DG, and that it gave input on financial incentives to the DG for Transport and Energy and on state aid to the DG for Competition.
Deputy Mayor of London Richard Barnes said the strides Bexley had made with the launch of the taskforce, together with the efforts under the Met-wide Operation Ferrous, delivered "a forceful message to those intent on carrying out such malicious theft and sabotage that it will not be tolerated".
One proposal, he added, was the creation of an industry-led group, a climate disclosure taskforce, to design and deliver a voluntary standard for disclosure by those companies that produce or emit carbon.
Without this proactive engagement and informed challenge the taskforce report will not deliver the services we deserve and need; the report provides some of the tools to ask better questions locally and nationally.
The taskforce is expected to deliver an update on its discussions at Fifa's annual congress in Mauritius at the end of this month.
