(c) Climatic conditions

12 See UNCTAD PRESS PR SPA 2004 010 of 17 June 2004.

There are 3000 square meter indoor spa and 4600 square meter outdoor spring.

Noting that the SPA projects are designed to show how adaptation planning and assessment can be practically translated into projects that will provide real benefits, she summarized SPA projects in Kiribati, Colombia, the Caribbean, and Africa.

Geographic, hydrographic, hydrological, hydrogeological, climatic, ecological, and other natural features

And under those kelps this is why the Molas come there because it's spa time for the Molas there.

This increase is attributed to a combination of human factors and climatic factors.

The country has to contend with harsh climatic conditions and the occurrence of regular natural disasters.

The climatic factors of concern include droughts and projected reductions in freshwater availability due to global warming.

But I also think of Peter Zumthor's spa in Vals, where light and dark, in very gentle combinations, alter each other to define the space.

Many of the geographically disadvantaged countries suffer from adverse agro climatic conditions and are susceptible to natural disasters.

The spacing, altitude and age of beach ridges are being studied to help assess climatic variations during the Holocene.

In 2000, an UNCTAD secretariat expert mission to the PA proposed follow up technical assistance to prepare the Sea Port Authority (SpA) for the eventual operation of Gaza Port.

Mountain States are characterized by remoteness, difficult accessibility, the scarcity of information, harsh geo climatic conditions, and high costs of living.

Notable plans include Brazil Advances within the Program of Climatic Change of the Brazilian Federal Government's Multi year Plan (2000 2003).

This is a spa telephone. The idea is that it's become so difficult to have a private conversation anywhere that you go to the spa, you have a massage, you have a facial, maybe a rub, and then you have this beautiful pool with this perfect temperature, and you can have this isolation tank phone conversation with whomever you've been wanting to talk with for a long time.

India reported atmospheric and climatic research that focuses on developing customized general circulation models (GCMs) and regional circulation models for South Asia.

For implementation activities, she noted that four programmes are available the Strategic Priority on Adaptation (SPA) trust fund the LDC Fund the SCCF and the Adaptation Fund under the Kyoto Protocol.

Although several countries did not provide details of their observation stations, all Parties have synoptic, climatic, meteorological, sea level, rainfall and hydrological monitoring stations.

A few Parties with suitable soils and climatic conditions for growing sugar cane are considering further investment in bagasse production (Brazil, Cuba, Mauritius and others).

Armenia counts on a network of as many as 45 meteorological stations, 3 climatic stations, and 70 meteorological, 105 river and 7 lake observation sites.

The problem is that one is now seeing armed forces operating in climatic areas which may be more severe than their weapons have been tested to.

A climatic model developed by James Hansen of NASA that took all three factors into account came closer to simulating observed temperature changes than had previous models.

Taking note of the surprising and preoccupying decision of the United States of America as to leaving the Kyoto Protocol on Climatic Changes after having signed it

She clarified that whereas the SPA funds the incremental costs of projects that have global benefits, the LCD Fund and the SCCF fund the additional cost of adaptation measures that are not required to include global benefits.

(d) There is a need to improve the assessment methodologies taking into account not only the symptoms of desertification but also the driving forces climatic, institutional and socio economic.

The report of the Secretary General echoed the repeated warnings of the Rio Group about the increased intensity of natural disasters and climatic phenomena, which called for an integrated approach.

These include participation in the Global Energy and Water Cycle Experiment, the Climatic Predictability and Variability Initiative, Stratospheric Processes and their Role in Climate, and the Arctic Climate System Study.

On conventional options the GEF funds (SPA, LDC Fund, SCCF and Adaptation Fund) provide opportunities for accessing financial resources that could be used for deployment, diffusion and transfer of technologies for adaptation, including initiatives on capacity building, partnerships and information sharing.

For example, the EU s policy notes that foreseen flexibility rules can compensate for local climatic, cultural, or structural differences. When suitable alternatives are lacking, some (strictly enumerated) synthetic chemicals are allowed.

Unstable malaria areas may therefore be prone to epidemic outbreaks, largely as a result of climatic factors, and because low levels of immunity affect people of all ages, with severe health consequences.

The harmful effects of water, originating from an imbalance and unequal distribution of natural elements (water regime, climatic, geological, topographical and human activities) are evident in the wider area of Bosnia and Herzegovina.

Desertification is defined by the United Nations Convention to Combat Desertification as land degradation in arid, semi arid and dry sub humid areas resulting from various factors, including climatic variations and human activities .

NEW YORK All signs suggest that the planet is still hurtling headlong toward climatic disaster. The United States National Oceanographic and Atmospheric Administration has issued its State of the Climate Report covering January May.

Other illnesses related to nutrition are the anemia (with incidence in the pregnant woman) and the bócio in situations of bad climatic conditions, cases of marasmo and Kwashiorkor are found in very poor families.

However, the tsunami tragedy of December 2004 introduced another dimension in public policy the need for the capacity to anticipate climatic, environmental and other changes impacting on the life and well being of the people.

The proverb that Mountain foot and top always see different seasons midsummer against spring or autumn against winter, with the four seasons being difficult to distinguish has highlighted the unique and typical climatic features of Shennongjia.

Additional geodetic and climatological information is generated from the former, which leads to the availability of some important climatic change indicators, such as anomalies in ocean topography (e.g. el Niño and la Niña) or in ice melting (e.g. Antarctic caps).

2. Declares its solidarity with the Government and the people of Djibouti, who continue to face critical challenges owing, in particular, to the scarcity of natural resources, harsh climatic conditions and the continuing critical situation in the Horn of Africa

And inside, we have this area for reforestation as a gene bank to keep all that material alive, because for the last 12 years not a single seedling of the tropical hardwood trees has grown up because the climatic triggers have disappeared.

Climatic, geographic, demographic and land use profiles, natural resources endowment, energy mix and economic structures are among the most important aspects of national circumstance affecting the profile of a country's GHG emissions, its vulnerabilities to climate change and other challenges it is facing.

The secretariat's report identified major factors responsible for Africa's failure poor governance, geography and distance from leading markets, low population density, harsh climatic conditions, and the fact that some of its countries were landlocked. To these factors the speaker added the people's low purchasing power.

Many Parties stated that they already experience severe water supply problems caused by a rapid increase in population, growing demands from agriculture and industry, expanding urbanization, unabated pollution of water bodies and the effects of climatic variability and extreme events (e.g. Lesotho, Philippines, Uganda).

National circumstances could relate to, inter alia, climatic conditions, economic development, operation or management practices, types of oil and gas activity, or the age of equipment or installations and their technical features, forest and soil characteristics, depending on the source or sink category in question.

With regard to Decision IX 5(1e), experience with demonstration and investment projects to date, such as those supported by the Multilateral Fund, indicates that the many technical, climatic, social and economic barriers to MB alternatives present in diverse Article 5(1) regions can be successfully overcome.