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.

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

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

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 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.

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 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.

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.

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.

Combating deforestation and forest degradation

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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.

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.

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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.

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(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.

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

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.

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.

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

Dealing with deforestation and forest degradation cannot wait until 2020.

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.

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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.

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.

Some Parties indicated that climate change impacts on human health will be exacerbated by existing poor conditions arising from insufficient potable water, low governmental budget for health, and environmental degradation, especially in marginal areas which are home to the poor.

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.

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

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

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

And along with economic growth have come environmental degradation and climate change.

The Global Environment Facility (GEF) attaches great importance to combating soil degradation.

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