Ozone depletion

There are evidences connecting the ozone depletion with the use of chlorofluorocarbons (CFCs), but the depletion of the Antarctic ozone is far from being fully understood.

Its human resources, which are indispensable for its economic advancement, are being depleted.

At each of them, pollution and resource depletion may result.

He has also addressed the General Assembly, warning of the dire effects that would follow should the Organization run out of money.

Uruguay is aware of the need to preserve the quality of the physical and human environment and of the dangers arising from the degradation of natural resources.

And perhaps most important of all, it is unsustainable because of climate change, resource depletion and species destruction.

Light water more specifically refers to deuterium depleted water (DDW), water in which the deuterium content has been reduced below the standard level.

Some tuna stocks are considered depleted (e.g., northern bluefin and southern bluefin in the Atlantic Ocean).

But these hopes were dashed as international lending dried up and trade collapsed, sending developing countries down the same spiral that industrial nations took.

At the time of the crisis itself, however, the main problem was not too much trading, but too little, as liquidity dried up for many financial transactions.

Ozone layer depletion was addressed under the Montreal Protocol, with projects worth 2.9 million programmed and implemented in five countries.

And unlike a glow stick, which fades out as the chemicals inside get used up, bioluminescent reactions use replenishable resources.

Although sand quarries are replenished naturally, the process takes time, and appropriate pricing is important to avoid their rapid depletion.

The Special Rapporteur also states that quot the fundamental impetus for the flight of refugees into Iran this past summer was the drying of the marshes together with a general fear of the governmental authorities quot .

If they hit a difficult patch as now seems likely society bears the brunt of the impact as credit dries up and asset prices fall.

Historical, geographical, and pictorial records point toward a consistent and progressive depletion of ice and snow masses in the Colombian Andes since the end of the Little Ice Age in the late 1800s.

The situation was compounded by the 1991 92 drought, which left many shallow wells dry and further reduced the water supply for the rural population.

Already, there was concern about the depletion of the ozone layer, while the greenhouse effect might cause temperatures throughout the world to rise, melting glaciers and putting coastal areas at risk.

The agreements often result in the depletion of fish stocks, limited fishing access to hereditary fishing areas, and damage to the marine ecosystem.

In accordance with the approved programme budget, it is expected that the deficit will increase significantly during the biennium 1994 1995, leading to a rapid depletion of the fund balance in the coming years.

The Commission believes that over the next four decades, fossil fuel costs will climb sharply, because sources will dry up and governments will place massive taxes on fossil fuels.

The depletion of forestry resources, in particular, has had a significant negative impact on women first, apart from their value as a productive resource, trees protect the quality of soil and water.

So, as lending dries up, borrowing households can no longer spend, and demand for certain goods changes disproportionately, especially in areas that boomed earlier.

Carbon dioxide emissions have been growing fast, fossil fuel resources are being depleted rapidly, and global warming has accelerated.

To avoid the degradation of marginal land depletion of soil fertility, soil erosion and so on it will be necessary for SIDS to change the patterns of cultivation of marginal land.

Both economic doctrine and common sense dictate that the revenues resulting from a drawdown of natural resource capital should be invested in other forms of capital, be it physical or human.

44. A network of surface observatories has to be developed and continued at Antarctic stations inside and outside the ozone depleted region, in order to measure total ozone and trace gases in the atmosphere, aerosol concentrations and cloud cover.

Fisheries depletion, in both exclusive economic zones and on the high seas, reveals how the international community is failing to meet one of the most important commitments that came out of the 1992 meeting.

Practice Various methods are used to achieve the level of oxygen depletion needed, such as a hanging, suffocation with a plastic bag over the head, self strangulation such as with a ligature, gas or volatile solvents, chest compression, or some combination of these.

Since the poor are often most vulnerable to the impact of natural resource depletion and environmental degradation, promoting a more rational use of natural resources is also consistent with the goal of poverty alleviation.

The government might also have been motivated by concerns that losses to the derivative counterparties would deplete the capital of some significant financial institutions at a difficult time. Again, such concerns would have been better addressed in different ways in particular, by providing institutions that needed capital with funds directly, and in return for securities.

Labelled by the US as part of the axis of evil, Syria has also seen Saudi financial aid dry up and fears that the trade benefits that would come with ratification of its Association Agreement with the EU will never materialize.

Turning to depletion of the soil through the use of chemical fertilizers, she wondered whether the fifth report was correct in stating that municipalities which used fewer chemical fertilizers on average had a relatively lower standard of living (p. 39).

With nuclear power regarded as the main technological bulwark against depletion of the world's oil supplies suddenly suspect, oil prices doubled again by the year's end.

When the industrial longline vessels deplete the local fisheries and move their operations that once provided a payoff to individual nations, local communities are left with the crisis of trying to feed their families and communities from badly damaged marine ecosystems.

There has been an ongoing conflict between Chile and the European Union since 2000, when the Chilean government closed its waters to Spanish industrial longline vessels that had depleted Chile's swordfish stocks and depressed take by local fishers.