Costa Rica is party to many environmental treaties, including the Convention on Biological Diversity, the Convention on Environmental Modification, the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change, the Montreal Protocol, the Ramsar Convention, the International Convention for the Regulation of Whaling, the Desertification Convention, the Endangered Species Convention, the Basel Convention, the Convention on the Law of the Sea, the Convention on Marine Dumping, the Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty.

* Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty ( CTBT )— signed 1996, not yet in force: The CTBT is an international treaty ( currently with 181 state signatures and 148 state ratifications ) that bans all nuclear explosions in all environments.

* Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty

* Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty

* September 10 – Comprehensive Nuclear Test Ban Treaty ( CTBT ) signed ( it will be ratified 180 days after ratification by 44 Annex 2 countries ).

** Preparatory Commission for the Comprehensive Nuclear Test Ban Organization ( CTBTO ) established.

Shortly after taking office, Chiracundaunted by international protests by environmental groupsinsisted upon the resumption of nuclear tests at Mururoa Atoll in French Polynesia in 1995, a few months before signing the Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty.

" On 1 February 1996, Chirac announced that France had ended " once and for all " its nuclear testing, intending to accede to the Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty.

It has been argued that some aspects of ICF research may violate the Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty or the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty.

This often involves as much negotiation as the limits themselves, and in some cases questions of verification have led to the breakdown of treaty negotiations ( for example, verification was cited as a major concern by opponents of the Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty, ultimately not ratified by the United States ).

* Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty, signed 1996

Furthermore, they state, the testing of new nuclear weapons would be prohibited by the proposed Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty.

After signing the Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty in 1996 ( which had as of 2011 not entered into force ), all of these states have pledged to discontinue all nuclear testing.

Ranked one of the top schools in Florida, Altha students consistently score well above state average on FCAT ( Florida Comprehensive Assessment Test ) testing.

One of the elementary schools and both of the middle schools received " A " grades under Florida's A + school grading plan, based on pupil results on the Florida Comprehensive Assessment Test ; none of the schools received a " D " or " F " grade.

Meigs Middle School, Shalimar Elementary School and Longwood Elementary School are currently ( 2009 ) A Schools according to the Florida Comprehensive Assessment Test.

* Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty

Underground testing of weapons continued until 23 September 1992, and although the United States did not ratify the Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty, the articles of the treaty are nevertheless honored and further tests have not occurred.

York was a professor of physics at the University of California, Berkeley, Chancellor of the University of California, San Diego ( 1961 – 1964, 1970 – 1972 ) and U. S. ambassador to the Comprehensive Test Ban negotiations in Geneva, Switzerland ( 1979 – 1981 ).< ref name = tiersten >

In 1996 Downer took the Comprehensive Nuclear Test Ban Treaty to the United Nations General Assembly where it was embraced by most members of the world body.

However, subsequent policies of the Howard government, including export of uranium to India, and general support for the unilateralist approach of the Bush Administration have been seen as undermining the Comprehensive Nuclear Test Ban Treaty and the Nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty.

After signing the Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty in 1996 ( which has as of 2012 not yet entered into force ), all of these states have pledged to discontinue all nuclear testing.

There have been many attempts to limit the number and size of nuclear tests ; the most far-reaching is the Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty of 1996, which has not yet been ratified by the United States.

There are many proposed anti-nuclear explosion treaties, such as the Partial Nuclear Test Ban Treaty, and the Comprehensive Nuclear Test Ban Treaty.

This trend began when the U. S. Senate, in October 1999, refused to ratify the Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty, which President Bill Clinton had signed in September 1996.

There is also a second seismic array approx 3 km north which has been run by Güralp Systems Limited since 2002 on behalf of AWE Blacknest providing the UK part of the international monitoring system of the Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty, which allows covert nuclear tests to be detected via their seismic signatures.

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* 1996 – Representatives of 71 nations sign the Comprehensive Nuclear-Test-Ban Treaty at the United Nations.

He also publicly opposed prime minister Sharif as the prime minister show some willingness to signing of the Comprehensive Nuclear-Test-Ban Treaty ( CTBT ).

* September 24 – U. S. President Bill Clinton signs the Comprehensive Nuclear-Test-Ban Treaty at the United Nations.

* Preparatory Commission for the Comprehensive Nuclear-Test-Ban Treaty Organization ( CTBTO PrepCom )

Vienna has regained a part of its former international stature by hosting international organizations, such as the United Nations ( United Nations Industrial Development Organization, United Nations Office at Vienna and United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime ), the Preparatory Commission for the Comprehensive Nuclear-Test-Ban Treaty Organization, the International Atomic Energy Agency, the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries, and the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe and the United European Gastroenterology Federation.

Subsequent discussions took place under the Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty ( START ) and the Comprehensive Nuclear-Test-Ban Treaty.

The Comprehensive Nuclear-Test-Ban Treaty Organization Preparatory Commission uses infrasound as one of its monitoring technologies ( along with seismic, hydroacoustic, and atmospheric radionuclide monitoring ).

Zizhi Tongjian, literally " Comprehensive Mirror to Aid in Government ", was a pioneering reference work in Chinese historiography.

The Controlled Substances Act ( CSA ) was enacted into law by the Congress of the United States as Title II of the Comprehensive Drug Abuse Prevention and Control Act of 1970.

A prolific writer, Remey wrote numerous published and personal articles promoting the Bahá ' í Faith, including ` Abdu ' l-Bahá – The Center of the Covenant and the five volume A Comprehensive History of the Bahá ' í Movement ( 1927 ), The Bahá ' í Revelation and Reconstruction ( 1919 ), Constructive Principles of The Bahá ' í Movement ( 1917 ), and The Bahá ' í Movement: A Series of Nineteen Papers ( 1912 ) are a few of the titles of the many works Remey produced while ` Abdu ' l-Bahá was still alive.

Following the signing of the Comprehensive Peace Agreement ( CPA ) in 2005 between the government of Omar al-Bashir and the SPLA, a Government of National Unity was installed in Sudan in accordance with the Interim Constitution whereby a co-Vice President position representing the south was created in addition to the northern Sudanese Vice President.

SFU was ranked 1st among Canada ’ s Comprehensive Universities in 2009, 2010, and 2011 by Maclean's.

The Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation, and Liability Act ( CERCLA ), was enacted in 1980.

The Survey of English Usage Corpus was used in the development of one of the most important Corpus-based Grammars, the Comprehensive Grammar of English ( Quirk et al.

In the United States, mescaline was made illegal in 1970 by the Comprehensive Drug Abuse Prevention and Control Act.

After Honeywell acquired GE's computer business, it was renamed to General Comprehensive Operating System ( GCOS ).

The Comprehensive Second-Hand Smoke Control Ordinance was expanded in the beginning of 2008 requiring 80 % of rental apartment buildings to be permanently designated as non-smoking units by January 1, 2012.

The Comprehensive Everglades Restoration Plan was signed into law, but the same divisive politics that had affected the region for the previous 50 years have compromised the plan.

The Comprehensive Everglades Restoration Plan ( CERP ) proposed more than 60 construction projects over 30 years to store water that was being flushed into the ocean, in reservoirs, underground aquifers, and abandoned quarries ; add more Stormwater Treatment Areas to filter water that flowed into the lower Everglades ; regulate water released from pumping stations into local waterways and improve water released to Everglades National Park and Water Conservation Areas ; remove barriers to sheetflow by raising the Tamiami Trail and destroying the Miami Canal, and reuse wastewater for urban areas.

Adams grew up in Dagenham and was a pupil at Hunters Hall Primary School from 1971 to 1978 and then Eastbrook Comprehensive School from 1978 to 1983.

Feltham Community College ( originally known as Feltham Comprehensive School when it was formed from two secondary modern and one grammar school ) and Rivers Academy West London ( known as Longford School / Longford Community School from its foundation in 1935 to 31 July 2011 ) both have excellent sports facilities.

Clark Gaines, NFL record holder and former Executive Director of the NFL Players Association, was raised in Elbert County and played football for Elbert County Comprehensive High School.

The study was undertaken by Acadamh na hOllscolaíochta Gaeilge ( part of the National University of Ireland, Galway ), and " Staidéar Cuimsitheach Teangeolaíoch ar Úsáid na Gaeilge sa Ghaeltacht " (" A Comprehensive Linguistic Study of the Usage of Irish in the Gaeltacht ") was published on 1 November 2007.

Oxford Hills Comprehensive High School, the regional high school, was founded in South Paris in 1961.

Much content was gathered from the Town of Forestburgh Comprehensive Plan ( amended July 5, 2007 ): http :// www. forestburgh. org / news / CPplan2006. pdf

Noah Webster's main competitor was a man named Joseph Emerson Worcester, whose 1830 Comprehensive Pronouncing and Explanatory Dictionary of the English Language brought accusations of plagiarism from Webster.

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The band was formed in 1986 in Oakdale Comprehensive School, Blackwood, Gwent, Wales.