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,

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,

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

This has put greater pressure on the natural environment and increased the risks of land degradation.

Climate change and variability, the sea level rise and susceptibility to natural disasters and other global environmental phenomena caused environmental degradation.

Our efforts to defeat poverty and pursue sustainable development will be in vain if environmental degradation and natural resource depletion continue unabated.

All our efforts will be in vain if their results are reversed by continued degradation of the environment and depletion of our natural resources.

IFAD supported a workshop in March 2004 on innovations and participatory research in farming with emphasis on natural resource management and preventing land degradation.

The UNU Institute for Natural Resources in Africa will organize a pilot multidisciplinary course in Ghana, Land degradation and management in a rural livelihoods context .

The impacts are made worse by the urbanization of the world's population, increasingly vulnerable to the natural disasters attributable to environmental degradation and global climate change.

Our efforts to defeat poverty and pursue sustainable development will be in vain if environmental degradation and natural resource depletion continue unabated. (A 59 2005, para.

The decline has occurred because, relative to population growth, fixed capital investment, knowledge and skills, and improvements in institutions have not compensated for the degradation of natural capital.

And unless we address this invisibility, we are going to get the results that we are seeing, which is a gradual degradation and loss of this valuable natural asset.

Just as a firm needs to measure the depreciation of its capital, so, too, our national accounts need to reflect the depletion of natural resources and the degradation of our environment.

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.

Several African countries are already experiencing reduced rainfall, soil degradation, and the depletion of precious natural resources, which has a direct impact on the livelihoods of two thirds of Sub Saharan Africans.

General description There is a need to phase out production and the consumption of ozone depleting substances (ODSs), which are leading to the continuing degradation of human health and the natural environment.

Combating deforestation and forest degradation

LADA Dryland Degradation Assessment Project

The activities undertaken by WFP of relevance to the UNCCD involve the participation of local communities and aim to prevent degradation and to conserve natural resources while raising public awareness on environmental issues.

Theft, extortion, destruction, degradation and damage

Prospects. Evidence indicates that industrial development and patterns of energy production and consumption must change in favour of those that bring sustainability to workplaces and communities and that reverse the degradation of our natural environment.

FIELD Financial Information Engine on Land Degradation

Sufficient food availability is directly dependent upon, among other factors, elements linked to the natural physical environment, its degree of integrity or degradation in its exploitation and management, and thus its protection and improvement with time.

Growth is not just a matter of increasing GDP. It must be sustainable growth based on environmental degradation, a debt financed consumption binge, or the exploitation of scarce natural resources, without reinvesting the proceeds, is not sustainable.

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

Limited efforts are underway in some countries to bring the perception of synergies to the ground level of natural resources users where problems relating to climate, land degradation and desertification and biodiversity are more obvious than their solutions.

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.

The environmental degradation is obvious even to casual observers.

Conversely, deforestation can contribute to land degradation and desertification.

While many executives have traditionally underappreciated the risks from climate change and resource degradation, understanding water risk and acting to minimize it is just one way that businesses are starting to incorporate natural resource management into their core strategy and operations.

In Africa, if current trends of population growth and soil degradation continue, the continent mightbe able to feed just 25 of its population by 2025, according to United Nations University (UNU)'s Ghana based Institute for Natural Resources in Africa.

Lacking basic infrastructure, human capital and public administration, and burdened by disease, environmental degradation and limited natural resources, these countries cannot afford the basic investments needed to move onto a new path of prosperity unless they receive sustained, targeted external support.

We agree with the Secretary General that, in spite of such efforts, our oceans and seas are still endangered by factors such as climate change, natural disasters, environmental degradation, depletion of fisheries, loss of biodiversity and ineffective flag State control.

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

Dealing with deforestation and forest degradation cannot wait until 2020.

Because of the long standing political and social conflict, significant degradation of the natural environment, and the considerable losses resulting from the floods of May 2004, Haiti was not able to cope with the consequences of the disaster and required significant international assistance.

Extreme poverty, degradation of natural resources and global environmental change combine to form a vicious downward spiral that can undermine all development efforts and heighten potential threats of conflict and insecurity at all levels, including by increasing vulnerability in small island developing States.

Desertification (land degradation caused by aridity) and overgrazing are also problems.

(g) Perverse subsidies and their impact on deforestation and forest degradation

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

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