Thermal pollution is the degradation of water quality by any process that changes ambient water temperature.

In North Africa, natural resource degradation and depletion, especially water, is an increasingly serious problem.

Some might assume that bond markets are shielded from the effects of climate change, ecosystem degradation, and water scarcity.

Conversely, land degradation, desertification, pollution and unequal access to water and productive ecosystems diminished human well being.

Member States should pool their efforts to tackle problems of environmental degradation, shortages of water resources and drinking water and the deterioration of environmental conditions in cities and industrial zones.

Other problems include degradation of irrigation and drainage infrastructure, the shortage of subsidies for the use of water and electricity, poorer skills of specialists, and the weakening of land and water resource institutions.

The international community had not done enough to respond to the destruction of ecosystems, land and soil degradation, loss of forests, fisheries and biodiversity, air and water pollution, and excessive consumption of fresh water.

In addition, the Global Environmental Facility should be encouraged to use the opportunity of its pending replenishment to increase funding for water and sanitation, using its international water and land degradation windows.

Other significant environmental problems include land degradation caused by deforestation and inappropriate agricultural practices, water loss, and mangrove clearance for aquaculture.

And sustainability is being jeopardized by environmental degradation and pollution, which pose a growing threat to the country s atmosphere and water supply.

Land degradation is a major threat, with some 73 per cent of the land being lightly to very severely degraded as the result of overgrazing, wind and water erosion, the inefficient use of water resources and political tensions.

Worse though, half of the population does not have access to drinkable water and the degradation of the environment is a cause of serious diseases, including among children.

Other negative impacts predicted included increased demand from agriculture, saltwater intrusion into coastal water resources caused by sea level rise (e.g. Cook Islands, Egypt, Vanuatu), and the degradation of water quality due to pollution, saltwater intrusion and sedimentation.

Environmental degradation, lack of equitable water resource management, natural disasters, the technology divide and the difficulty of obtaining access to international markets were among the problems that needed to be tackled.

Poverty is also closely related to inappropriate spatial distribution of population, to unsustainable use and inequitable distribution of such natural resources as land and water, and to serious environmental degradation (para.

There is no secondary pollution (unlike the case of incineration where additional CO2 and NOx are produced from burning fuels) and degradation products form additional biomass, carbon dioxide and water.

Combating deforestation and forest degradation

LADA Dryland Degradation Assessment Project

Certain projects currently in progress in countries or pilot areas are endeavouring to produce vulnerability maps of degradation or the risk of land degradation.

(c) Asia and the Pacific The combination of high population density and growth, rapid industrialization and urbanization, and poverty has accelerated environmental degradation and led to a substantial increase in air and water pollution.

Accelerating trends of environmental degradation and poverty at the local, national and global levels lead to increased competition for scarce resources such as land and water, and can be potential flashpoints for violent conflict.

Theft, extortion, destruction, degradation and damage

Meanwhile, the economic consequences of environmental degradation can be severe.

As we have observed, the poverty statistics in many regions are discouraging, particularly with regard to sanitation, access to safe drinking water, child mortality, childcare, environmental degradation and access to basic quality education.

FIELD Financial Information Engine on Land Degradation

The increased scarcity of common resources, as well as the erosion of biogenetic diversity and degradation of land, water and other public goods,19 affect the productivity and economic viability of women's work, both in farm and non farm activities.

We also have to confront the serious degradation of the environment.

Reintroduction of indigenous vegetation will help with the degradation of the land.

Other challenges facing our region include high levels of poverty and income inequality, a persistent food shortage and an emerging water shortage both due largely to drought and environmental degradation as well as to institutional, policy and resource constraints.

Disasters may be both a consequence and a cause of environmental degradation.

(6) Control of Land Degradation and Desertification processes in the insular Caribbean

Syria states that the degradation and loss of decorations ornamentation is evident.

Scope and Coherence of the Land Degradation Activities in the GEF, paras.

The challenges of the alarming rate of deforestation and forest degradation remain serious.

As the GEF land degradation executing agency linked to the GM, IFAD has the opportunity to match land degradation to poverty reduction and development concerns.

In response to questions about the anaerobic degradation of appliances in landfills, Mr. Ashford said that research was only in its early stages and that it was important to establish the nature of the degradation products before looking at what could be done to look at enhancing the process of anaerobic degradation.

The environmental degradation is obvious even to casual observers.

Conversely, deforestation can contribute to land degradation and desertification.

Activation of the full audit trail would result in severe degradation of system performance.

Syria states that samples were collected to evaluate the degradation of each artefact.

This increase in child mortality resulted from acute food shortages, combined with heightened morbidity and reduced capacity of the health system to manage childhood illness caused by a severe shortage of essential drugs and general degradation of health infrastructure and water and sanitation systems.

Similarly, China has become more uncoordinated, or fragmented, as its income disparities have continued to widen. And sustainability is being jeopardized by environmental degradation and pollution, which pose a growing threat to the country s atmosphere and water supply.

Dealing with deforestation and forest degradation cannot wait until 2020.

Conscious of the particular vulnerability of the small Territories to natural disasters and environmental degradation,

Conscious of the particular vulnerability of the small Territories to natural disasters and environmental degradation,