(7) the protection of surface and groundwaters against depletion and pollution

Those are related to hunger, disease, natural resource management, environmental pollution and climate change.

Special attention should be given to the areas of energy, climate change, air pollution and industrial development.

Poverty, disease, pollution, terrorism and violence have a worldwide impact and they are all interconnected.

Yet ocean bio systems are under threat from acidification, pollution, and over exploitation.

The system was designed to empower farmers, increase the yield of crops and reduce costs and pollution.

Richard Fuller is president of Pure Earth (formerly Blacksmith Institute) and a founding member of the Global Alliance for Health and Pollution.

For example, measurements of GDP currently neglect the costs of natural resource replacement, pollution, and the destruction of biodiversity.

Numerous coalitions emerge to take on the challenges of economic development, energy security, and environmental pollution through cross border cooperation.

Conversely, land degradation, desertification, pollution and unequal access to water and productive ecosystems diminished human well being.

And then the really scary thing about all of this the overfishing, the pollution and the climate change is that each thing doesn't happen in a vacuum.

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

Iraq further states that this coastline has been subject to substantial and chronic oil and other pollution impacts before and since 1991.

The Global Alliance on Health and Pollution is galvanizing resources to help low and middle income countries address priority pollution problems.

This Mejillones thing is a DISASTER. What can come out of there, if there's only death and contamination? And the authorities aren't doing anything!!!

But, in the last decade, a series of scandals and crises involving public safety, adulterated food and drugs, and environmental pollution has thoroughly destroyed what little credibility lingered.

One delegation indicated its willingness to share the data and information it had compiled at the national level about fish stocks, pollution, salinity and temperature.

Describing some of Singapore's experiences in overcoming environmental sustainability challenges, he remarked that, not so long ago, his country had suffered from frequent floods and pollution.

Air and water pollution affects the country, as well as deforestation, and radiation contamination in the northeast stemming from the 1986 accident at Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant.

If you take China, and you just take Beijing, you can see on that traffic system, and the pollution associated with the consumption of energy as the cars expand at the price of the bicycles.

There are problems of sewage overflow and contamination, but I would also argue that almost every city has this exact condition, and it's a condition that we're all facing.

Rapidly intensifying water scarcity reflects bulging populations, depletion of groundwater, waste and pollution, and the enormous and increasingly dire effects of manmade climate change.

From 1991 to 1995 he was Assistant Director General in the Ministry of the Environment, and from 1995 to 2002 he was director of planning and control at the Norwegian Pollution Control Authority.

It is considered critically endangered due to habitat loss, pollution, and overcollection, as it is considered a delicacy and used in traditional Chinese medicine.

6. Calls upon all States to become contracting parties to relevant international agreements to promote the protection of the marine environment of the Caribbean Sea from pollution and degradation from ships

9. Calls upon all States to become contracting parties to relevant international agreements to promote the protection of the marine environment of the Caribbean Sea from pollution and degradation from ships

Marine scientific research can lead to a better understanding and utilization of the ocean and its resources in almost all aspects, including fisheries, marine pollution and coastal zone management.

The ocean is our planet s life support system, keeping it healthy and productive. But overfishing and pollution are causing tremendous damage.

Many of the people exposed to the most vehicle noise, pollution and safety risk have been those who do not own, or cannot drive cars, and those for whom the cost of car ownership causes a severe financial burden.

A major instrument for enhancing education focused on energy, climate change, air pollution and atmosphere issues will be the United Nations Decade of Education for Sustainable Development 2005 2014.

The emphasis of the policy review and development work for the biennium 2006 2007 will be the environmental components of the internationally agreed goals, including integrated water resources management, human health, urban pollution and climate change.

To help control the pollution, the Indian government has set up the Taj Trapezium Zone (TTZ), a area around the monument where strict emissions standards are in place.

For two years, I searched for a fiber that could survive ultraviolet rays, salt, air, pollution, and at the same time remain soft enough to move fluidly in the wind.

The scientists stated that the decline was a result of overfishing, pollution and other environmental factors that were reducing the population of fisheries at the same time as their ecosystems were being annihilated.

Iraq argues that Iran has not demonstrated that any loss of crops occurred or that there is any causal connection between the alleged reduction in crop production and pollution resulting from the invasion and occupation of Kuwait.

Environment In the period of rapid economic growth after World War II, environmental policies were downplayed by the government and industrial corporations as a result, environmental pollution was widespread in the 1950s and 1960s.

Issues that affect water supply and sanitation in the United States include water scarcity, pollution, a backlog of investment, concerns about the affordability of water for the poorest, and a rapidly retiring workforce.

In fact, evidence shows that building cities right generates near term benefits, while reducing the longer term costs associated with sprawl, congestion, pollution, and climate change.

Increased variability and intensity of rainfall as a result of climate change is expected to produce both more severe droughts and flooding, with potentially serious consequences for water supply and for pollution from combined sewer overflows.

Lyndon Johnson s War on Poverty in the mid 1960 s reflected an era of national optimism and the belief that society should make collective efforts to solve common problems, such as poverty, pollution, and health care.

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.

(o) Analyse the causes of, and address solutions to, threats to forest health and vitality from natural disasters and human activities, including threats from fire, pollution, pests, disease and invasive alien species

While US Vice President Dick Cheney denigrates the idea of energy conservation, China s leaders have adopted a new five year plan that commits the country to cut energy use by one fifth, industrial pollution by one tenth, and industrial water consumption by one third.

While critics still point to the chemicals used in making synthetic materials, this method significantly reduces water consumption and pollution, while cotton (organic or not) uses a tremendous amount of water during the growth and dyeing phases.

It was agreed that the President would develop the draft high level declaration, based on the outline, comments received thereon and the outputs of intersessional regional consultations.