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

Despite substantial progress in the formulation and implementation of national forest policies, deforestation and forest degradation continue at an alarming rate.

Combating deforestation and forest degradation

LADA Dryland Degradation Assessment Project

Theft, extortion, destruction, degradation and damage

FIELD Financial Information Engine on Land Degradation

Considering the very slow rate of degradation of most marine litter items, a continuous input of large quantities of marine litter will result in a gradual increase of litter in the coastal and marine environment.

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.

Non governmental organizations are also deeply concerned about the lack of action taken by key actors, including Governments, intergovernmental organizations, and the private sector, among others, to curb the deforestation and forest degradation currently occurring at an alarming rate.

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

Dealing with deforestation and forest degradation cannot wait until 2020.

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.

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

Theft, extortion, destruction, degradation and damage, as well as computer related offences

(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.

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

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 effective interest rate, effective annual interest rate, annual equivalent rate (AER) or simply effective rate is the interest rate on a loan or financial product restated from the nominal interest rate as an interest rate with annual compound interest payable in arrears.

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

Through conservation agriculture practices, farmers contribute to reducing emissions while combating land degradation.

The population growth rate surged as the mortality rate dropped more rapidly than the birth rate.

And, while males inflicted torture, degradation in the presence of women enhanced the humiliation.

As a child, Geremek witnessed the degradation of those enslaved in the Warsaw ghetto.

Where oceans meet the shore, degradation of mangroves and grasslands jeopardizes our coastal communities.

China is exporting not only more and more goods, but also its environmental degradation.

The problems of poverty, hunger, disease, illiteracy and environmental degradation continue to haunt us.

Land degradation is sometimes monitored under regional programmes or in cooperation with international agencies.

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

This contribution was provided to undertake land degradation projects in some African country Parties.

Since then, POPs and land degradation (desertification) have been added as GEF focal areas.

It was created before the land degradation focal area was added to the GEF.

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.

At the regional and subregional levels, FAO has initiated and prepared the Land Degradation Assessment in the Drylands (LADA), used to develop tools and methods to assess and quantify the nature, extent and severity of land 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,