Other examples include markets for nitrogen oxide, wetland mitigation credits, particulate matter and volatile organic compounds.

Also, it is a matter of fact that COs were not established in many countries; and a good number of UCCs and heads of agencies neither speak the local languages nor understand the cultural sensitivities of the countries concerned - an important element in efforts towards forging any closer cooperation and collaboration with the host countries in dealing with such a sensitive and increasingly volatile matter as the HIV/AIDS pandemic is believed to be.

Also, it is a matter of fact that COs were not established in many countries; and a good number of UCCs and heads of agencies neither speak the local languages nor understand the cultural sensitivities of the countries concerned - an important element in efforts towards forging any closer cooperation and collaboration with the host countries in dealing with such a sensitive and increasingly volatile matter as the HIV/AIDS pandemic is believed to be.

(f) Promoting voluntary guidelines for environmentally friendly transport, and actions for reducing vehicle emissions of carbon dioxide, carbon monoxide, nitrogen oxides, particulate matter and volatile organic compounds;

The scale and speed of global industrialization, stimulated by globalization and accelerated by trade liberalization, has led to unabated urbanization and motorization trends in major cities of the world, causing even more fossil fuel consumption and an increase in common pollutants, including sulphur dioxide, particulate matters, volatile organic compounds, ozone, lead, carbon monoxide and nitrogen oxide.

Related to the international financial system, it was pointed out that with more liberalized capital markets and floating exchange rates, the risk of substantial changes in the exchange rate of developing countries had increased, complicating matters because volatility of exchange rates might increase the debt burden abruptly.

It would entail making determinations on complex matters in volatile situations where it was often difficult to make a determination on the combatant or non-combatant status of personnel, or indeed whether such status would be altered when such personnel were acting in self-defence.