The Plan encourages an accelerated shift towards sustainable consumption and production, where appropriate de linking economic growth and environmental degradation through improved efficiency and sustainability in the use of resources and reduced resource degradation, pollution and waste.

(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.

For instance, any worsening of unequal terms of trade, as has already happened for some products (such as cotton), can lead to accelerated land degradation and the growing impoverishment of rural populations in African countries affected by desertification.

Obstacles to accelerated progress

Since Katrina, issuance has accelerated.

The driver accelerated his car.

The driver accelerated his car.

C. Obstacles to accelerated progress

Deforestation must be reversed, not accelerated.

It is a Human accelerated region.

(a) Accelerated implementation at country level

Combating deforestation and forest degradation

LADA Dryland Degradation Assessment Project

The pace of change, however, must be accelerated.

Nonetheless, the improvement process needed to be accelerated.

But accelerated reconstruction in a post Bonn framework will also require accelerated confidence building and an intensification of the ties and exchanges among neighbours.

Theft, extortion, destruction, degradation and damage

This generational change is accelerated by a third development.

The pattern of weakness accelerated in April and May.

FIELD Financial Information Engine on Land Degradation

In molecular biology, Human accelerated region 1 (highly accelerated region 1, HAR1) is a segment of the human genome found on the long arm of chromosome 20.

Mexico s essential problem in achieving accelerated economic growth lies elsewhere.

HITECH has undeniably accelerated IT adoption among health care providers.

The pace of fundraising has also accelerated since Houla Massacre.

The accelerated measles mortality reduction programme has made exceptional progress.

With external financial assistance, our development efforts could be accelerated.

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

Facebook helped, but mainly because it magnified and accelerated the process.

Within five years, annual production had accelerated to tens of thousands.

Implementation of the disarmament, demobilization and reintegration programme must be accelerated

Translating policies, legislation, plans and budgets into large scale accelerated action

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.

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

Dealing with deforestation and forest degradation cannot wait until 2020.

Obviously, the pace of the verified destruction of declared stockpiles should be accelerated.

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.

Conversion to Christianity in Gaza was accelerated under Saint Porphyrius between 396 and 420.

For that reason, it had accelerated the process of ratifying the Convention in 1992.

Israel has also continued and accelerated construction of its barrier in the West Bank.

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

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