Given its geography, my country is particularly interested in issues relating to the seas and oceans.

Early Man and the Ocean A Search for the Beginnings of Navigation and Seaborne Civilizations , February 1979.

Recognizing the importance of integrated, multidisciplinary and multisectoral coastal and ocean management at the national, subregional and regional levels,

Mountains and oceans are hard to move, but portions of cyberspace can be turned on and off by throwing a switch.

An integrated, transparent, adaptive and enforceable regulatory framework is essential for fisheries and oceans sustainability and that of its industries.

Our decision to focus on ecosystem approaches and oceans at next year's meeting will, we believe, continue in that helpful mode.

Treaty on the Prohibition of the Emplacement of Nuclear Weapons and Other Weapons of Mass Destruction on the Sea Bed and the Ocean Floor and in the Subsoil Thereof

Systematic observation All reporting Parties described their national programmes on meteorological, atmospheric, oceanographic and terrestrial observations of the climate system.

It was able to run holistic simulations of global climate in both the atmosphere and the oceans down to a resolution of 10 km.

The General Assembly recommends in its draft omnibus resolution that the Consultative Process should, at its next meeting, focus its discussions on the topic Ecosystem approaches and oceans .

And what I'd like to talk to you today about, a little bit, is really transforming the relationship, or the interplay, between humans and oceans with a new capability that is not at all routine yet.

Given the geography of India, with a coastline extending 4,000 miles and with 1,300 islands, we have a traditional and abiding interest in maritime and ocean affairs.

Emphasizing the universal and unified character of the Convention and its fundamental importance for the maintenance and strengthening of international peace and security, as well as for the sustainable use and development of the seas and oceans and their resources,

Even the chemistry of the land and ocean is changing, with the ocean becoming more acidic thus threatening coral reefs as a result of higher carbon dioxide.

The huge quantities of local water that LWRs consume for their operations become hot water outflows, which are pumped back into rivers, lakes, and oceans.

So here's a note to self The cracks have started to show in our constructed world, and oceans will continue to surge through the cracks, and oil and blood, rivers of it.

Energy security and cost, water and air quality, climate, ecosystems on land and in the oceans, food security, and much more would be threatened.

Mrs. Picco (Monaco) (spoke in French) The Principality of Monaco has always been especially concerned about the protection of the seas and the oceans, as evinced by its involvement in the Mediterranean region.

The ice drilling project on the north eastern corner of the Amery ice shelf near Davis Station continued.

Mr. Chaabani (Tunisia) (spoke in French) At the outset I would like to take the opportunity to thank the Secretary General of the United Nations for his comprehensive reports on fisheries and on the oceans and the law of the sea.

Before registers and publishes treaties , insert as an objective assists Member States regarding implementation of the international legal order for seas and oceans as well as the law of treaties .

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

Although most are located in the depths of seas and oceans, some also exist in shallow water, which can spew material into the air during an eruption.

The challenge is whether we can pull together the threads of fisheries and oceans conservation issues and create an agenda that converges and plays to strengths coherently, rather than one that diverges and fragments.

Despite a global pledge to reduce significantly the loss of biological diversity by 2010, huge areas of rainforest and oceans continue to be destroyed.

The outer limits of the continental shelf of a State also define the Area (the seabed and ocean floor and subsoil thereof, beyond the limits of national jurisdiction), which is, together with its resources, the common heritage of mankind (article 136 of the Convention).

By interfering with the carbon, nitrogen, water, and phosphorus cycles, human activity changes the atmosphere, oceans, waterways, forests, and ice sheets, and diminishes biodiversity.

Canada will be pleased to offer its perspective and experience with States and others at the 2006 meeting of the United Nations Open ended Informal Consultative Process on Oceans and the Law of the Sea, which will address ecosystem approaches and oceans.

I'm haunted by the thought of what Ray Anderson calls tomorrow's child, asking why we didn't do something on our watch to save sharks and bluefin tuna and squids and coral reefs and the living ocean while there still was time.

99. Reaffirms paragraph 119 of resolution 61 222 regarding ecosystem approaches and oceans, including the proposed elements of an ecosystem approach, means to achieve implementation of an ecosystem approach and requirements for improved application of an ecosystem approach, and in this regard

Despite efforts to create a legal framework to protect seas and oceans, lacunae still exist both in the application and enforcement of international rules and norms, and in the understanding by the principal actors and the public of the problem.

Most manufacturers balance their compass needles for one of five zones, ranging from zone 1, covering most of the Northern Hemisphere, to zone 5 covering Australia and the southern oceans.

Major processes of interaction between the atmosphere, oceans, ice and biota affect the entire global system through feedbacks, biogeochemical cycles, circulation patterns, transport of energy and pollutants, and changes in ice mass balance.

Rephrase the third task of the Division to read The Division will provide services for the effective application of the international judicial order of the sea and the ocean, thus helping in the understanding, acceptance and consequent application of the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea (1982) and the related agreements.

The need for an integrated ecosystem based approach to fisheries and oceans governance, based on the best available science, is widely and increasingly considered the key to maintaining fishery productivity and its continuing contribution to sustainable development.

Venezuela interpreted the Proliferation Security Initiative, as an escalation of imperialist aggression which would allow ships to be boarded on the pretext of inhibiting maritime trafficking in nuclear material by States or groups classified as terrorist.

Noting the key and evolving role that subregional and regional fisheries management organizations and arrangements can play in ensuring effective and sustainable fisheries and ocean conservation and management, it was proposed that the General Assembly

With the world s human population set to rise from six billion to nine billion people in the next half century, we need to improve management of our atmosphere, air, lands, soils, and oceans anyway.

We draw it, use it, throw it away, most often back into rivers or oceans.