Each country would establish midterm national targets for reducing emissions over the next 10 to 20 years, while working together to set a longer-term goal.

Based upon the findings, the federal government establishes targets for improvement of primary and secondary education across schools.

We are now at a stage where we've established operational good practice and short-term targets on carbon.

"It is significant for them to establish goals, targets and timetables," he said in a telephone interview.

"For that reason it is important to establish not so much ambitious, but rather, specific targets."

At Earth Summit 2002 governments established targets for 2015 to improve access to safe drinking water.

He thinks Human Genome could hit $150 by 2002 but he has not established targets for the others.

The final stage of any marketing planning process is to establish targets (or standards) so that progress can be monitored.

Many countries have established national targets, accompanied by action plans and implementations.

Establishing targets to restore beneficial uses is challenging and sometimes controversial.