Prior to using these measurements for carbon estimation, they exist as standardized, spatially explicit, archivable and verifiable data the needed substrate for a REDD-type accounting program.
He concluded by hymning printed newspapers "with their geography, their serendipity and their smell... we need verifiable reliable sources of news and we need journalism, and that is not the same as the outpourings of flatulent trolls who feel free to disseminate whatever they like, but say nothing".
Sound, verifiable information is needed, for example, on the relative risks of lead exposure in one method of lead abatement versus another.
Companies that offer them can win custom from those who need a verifiable record of their transactions.
The process of ratification stalled after the United States Senate voted in 1999 to reject the treaty, claiming that it was not verifiable and citing the need for "stockpile stewardship" to assure the reliability of American weapons.
One of the definitions on which there is, however, agreement in the literature is the so-called "minimal definition" of democracy, which lists the fundamental factors empirically verifiable and measurable that need to be present, all and simultaneously, to call a political regime as democratic (Dahl 1971; Linz 1978; Sartori 1987; Schmitter and Karl 1993; Morlino 2003).
There is a need for verifiable information about the clinical validity and utility of specific gene variants, and verifiability implies access not just to scientific conclusions but to data sufficient to reproduce those conclusions.
But the crucial point is this: the world – perhaps more than ever – still needs reliable, verifiable sources of serious news.
But John Paul needs one verifiable miracle to be beatified, which means that one has reached heaven and can be referred to as "blessed".
The U.S. needs to immediately hold him responsible for the welfare of two American citizens and demand verifiable information on their safety, or proof of their deaths and the return of their remains.
"There are those who understand the history of the cold war and the need to put verifiable controls on nuclear weapons," he said.
