Millennium Ecosystem Assessment

(d) The fact that 60 per cent of the ecosystem services examined by the Millennium Ecosystem Assessment are being degraded or used unsustainably, including freshwater, capture fisheries, air and water purification and the regulation of regional and local climate, natural hazards and pests.

In this way, it indexes the state of an ecosystem.

Many options exist to conserve or enhance specific ecosystem services in ways that reduce negative trade offs or that provide positive synergies with other ecosystem services.

Responsible fisheries in the marine ecosystem

Responsible fisheries in the marine ecosystem

The implementation of an ecosystem approach to management is a complex task.

The main findings of the Millennium Ecosystem Assessment include the following

And what we're saying is that, shouldn't our cities do at least as well, in terms of ecosystem services, as the native systems that they replace?

Because decreased biodiversity results in less resistant crops and loss of ecosystem services, pest infestations and weather variability increase agricultural stresses.

Recognizing also the need to further integrate ecosystem approaches into fisheries conservation and management and, more generally, the importance of applying ecosystem approaches to the management of human activities in the ocean,

Its basis is integrated oceans planning, founded on an ecosystem approach to management.

Some delegations underlined the need for a stronger ecosystem based focus.

The degradation of ecosystem services could grow significantly worse during the first half of this century and is a barrier to the attainment of the Millennium Development Goals and other internationally agreed development goals.

My Government has shown that it is committed to eliminating IUU fishing in order to conserve the marine ecosystem.

The report also aims to highlight the importance of desert ecosystem services, such as crops, oil and mineral deposits and tourism, and the challenges faced by countries with desert areas face and by their populations, and provide an outlook for the future.

Possible mechanisms include cap and trade systems, which are already used for some pollutants, payments for ecosystem services from buyers interested in the maintenance of those services to sellers who can act to ensure such maintenance, and taxes or user fees to account for all impacts and tradeoffs from specific activities

This variability is driven by the degree of aridity combined with the pressure people put on the ecosystem's resources.

Further integration of ecosystem management goals within other sectors and broader development planning frameworks

One of the technical tools that requires priority attention is the ecosystem approach in oceans management.

POPs are also a threat to biodiversity, and even have the potential to cause disruption at the ecosystem level.

(vi) To appreciate the focus on the role of ecosystem services for human well being in GEO 4 and in the International Assessment of Agricultural Science and Technology for Development to be published in 2007.

(i) To disseminate relevant information to decision makers and practitioners and promote the use of integrated and adaptive marine farming systems that reduce waste, protect ecosystem services, better control pollutants and use the most regionally appropriate species

Post tsunami reconstruction provided the best chance of integrating ecosystem restoration into coastal planning and development.

Agriculture covers approximately one third of the world's land surface and farmers are the largest group of ecosystem managers.

In order to do that, we must establish an integrated ecosystem based fisheries and oceans management system.

Therefore, farmers will be an integral part of ecosystem management designed to handle the burden brought on by climate change.

76. Also notes the Millennium Ecosystem Assessment Synthesis reports and the urgent need to protect the marine biodiversity expressed therein

Some delegations stressed the importance of the application of the ecosystem and precautionary approaches in the conservation and management of marine living resources.

The majority of the planet's essential ecosystem services continued to be degraded and unsustainably managed, although the Millennium Project report had concluded that those services were essential to attaining the Millennium Development Goals and that their continued degradation significantly impaired the world's ability to achieve them by 2015.

That complicated topic requires a well managed debate and a clear delineation of the steps that will help us understand how to make ecosystem approaches a reality.

It has long been recognized that one of the most serious and extensive threats to the health of the marine ecosystem is pollution from land based sources.

100. Further notes the Millennium Ecosystem Assessment synthesis reports and the urgent need to protect the marine biodiversity expressed therein

115. Also notes the Millennium Ecosystem Assessment synthesis reports and the urgent need to protect the marine biodiversity expressed therein

The assessment is founded on a framework for conducting integrated agricultural assessments at local, national, regional and global scales, based on the Millennium Ecosystem Assessment framework.

As shown by the Millennium Ecosystem Assessment report, the increasing pressure on the ecosystems on which we all depend is putting achievement of the MDGs at risk.

Within our coastal and marine areas, we have established national marine parks and reserves in order to enhance protection and conservation of the diverse and highly productive ecosystems therein.

Indian Federation of United Nations Associations

Those organizations and their parties have a heavy responsibility as regards a broad range of challenges related to ecosystem based resource management and the conservation of biodiversity.

The only criterion for availing the services of this system is the ability to pay.

The Two Contracting Parties should jointly protect the ecological system of the transboundary waters and develop and utilize transboundary waters in a way that should not be detrimental to the other side.

103. Recommends that, in its deliberations on the report of the Secretary General on oceans and the law of the sea at its meeting, the Consultative Process should focus its discussions on the following topic s Ecosystem approaches and oceans

These persons must be familiar with the scientific and economic issues relating to grazing practices and ecosystem management, and they need to have the credibility to develop the trust of livestock owners.

Restoration Restoring the ecosystem's original structure and functions.

The ecological damage that the world is facing is no less important.