The environmental degradation is obvious even to casual observers.

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

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

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

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

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.

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,

Since then, the world has seen countless acts of violence, terrorism, famine, and environmental degradation.

If the war on environmental degradation is to be won, we need a major turnaround.

Those areas are also prone to environmental degradation and tensions between host communities and newcomers.

Three different kinds of situation, all of which relate to environmental degradation, need to be distinguished.

The key question is are we able to combat poverty, disease, environmental degradation, terrorism and violence?

Women are those most affected by environmental degradation, such as chemical contamination and indoor air pollution.

Environmental degradation in Asia not only harms its population s health, but will become an impediment to growth.

They also include poverty, deadly infectious disease and environmental degradation since these can have equally catastrophic consequences.

This has also led to environmental degradation, and loss of resources that could otherwise benefit local communities.

Recognizing the negative impact of environmental degradation, including climate change, desertification and loss of biodiversity, on human settlements,

In particular, we committed ourselves to fight extreme poverty, preventable diseases, human conflict, environmental degradation and global warming.

War and violence often have as underlying causes hunger, poverty, and environmental degradation, such as human induced climate change.

Multi stakeholder alliances at a global level are growing and try to address global public concerns (e.g., environmental degradation, AIDS).

From environmental degradation through international lawlessness to energy crises, it is the small States that are often the first victims.

The number of people living below the threshold of absolute poverty had increased, and environmental degradation was reaching alarming levels.

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.

If the war on environmental degradation is to be won, we need a major turnaround. Three areas can help speed progress

What is new today is the focus on urbanization s negative externalities especially the thorny issues of land confiscation and environmental degradation.

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

While terrorists sow panic and xenophobia in our societies, deprivation, hunger, disease and environmental degradation continue to fuel insecurity and destabilization.

Economic and social threats, including poverty, infectious disease and environmental degradation, as well as internal conflicts, continue to afflict the continent.

While the central government admits to some of the environmental degradation caused by rapid economic growth, the picture it paints is incomplete.

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

Among the main causes are climate change, environmental degradation, increasing levels of vulnerability, inappropriate development patterns and inadequate mitigation and preparedness systems.

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

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.

Once a world leader in the fight against environmental degradation, America was the last major economy to acknowledge the reality of climate change.

The other side is persistent poverty, lack of development, massive environmental degradation, a widespread rural urban divide, demographic problems, and troubled banking systems.

The talk, titled Contours of World Order Continuities and Changes, was mostly about two dominant threats facing humanity nuclear wars and environmental degradation.

Changes occurring in environmental processes are better understood if due account is taken of the interactions between climate, biological diversity and land degradation.

Recalling also the UNEP GC decision (UNEPGC.19 107) on environmental situation in occupied Palestine and Arab territories, and expressing deep concern over the continued degradation of the environmental conditions in the occupied Palestine

In short, the links between education and reduced fertility, faster economic development, and lower environmental degradation are too powerful and obvious to be ignored.

Regional cooperation must also be expanded to directly impact the MDGs in such areas as environmental degradation, communicable diseases and the migration of workers.

While the report tries to have a comprehensive approach to global environmental degradation, it clearly fails to provide broad recommendations to address the challenge.