We also have to confront the serious degradation of the environment.

The degradation of the environment has clearly become one of the major obstacles to development.

The Global Environment Facility (GEF) attaches great importance to combating soil degradation.

There is, therefore, strong pressure on our natural resources and subsequent degradation of the environment.

This has put greater pressure on the natural environment and increased the risks of land degradation.

(c) Environment land degradation, soil erosion, forestry, biodiversity, coastal deterioration, natural disasters and heritage.

Invites the Global Environment Facility to strengthen the focal area of land degradation, primarily desertification and deforestation

4. Invites the Global Environment Facility to strengthen the focal area of land degradation, primarily desertification and deforestation

6. Invites the Global Environment Facility to strengthen the focal area of land degradation, primarily desertification and deforestation

Moreover, the degradation of the environment continued to be a critical problem for indigenous peoples in the Americas.

Another major source of concern, in addition to the level of poverty, is the degradation of the environment in Haiti.

Invites the Global Environment Facility to strengthen the focal area of land degradation, primarily desertification and deforestation, and calls upon Global Environment Facility donors to increase substantially the level of resources to be allocated to the land degradation focal area during the fourth replenishment of the Facility

7. Invites the Global Environment Facility to strengthen the focal area of land degradation, primarily desertification and deforestation, and calls upon Global Environment Facility donors to increase substantially the level of resources to be allocated to the land degradation focal area during the fourth replenishment of the Facility

Deeply concerned at the continuing deterioration of the global environment, including the worsening trends in environmental pollution and the degradation of natural resources

(i) Physical integrity To maintain and enhance the quality of landscapes, both urban and rural, and avoid physical and visual degradation of the environment

All our efforts will be in vain if their results are reversed by continued degradation of the environment and depletion of our natural resources.

The investments required for desertification control tend to be greater because many African countries are facing a worsening degradation of their biophysical environment.

Noting that the global environment continues to suffer degradation, adding to economic and social vulnerabilities, in particular in developing countries,

Noting that the global environment continues to suffer degradation, adding to economic and social vulnerabilities, in particular in developing countries,

Noting that the global environment continues to suffer degradation, adding to economic and social vulnerabilities, in particular in developing countries,

Emphasizing the need for the provision of adequate resources for the focal area of land degradation, primarily desertification and deforestation, of the Global Environment Facility,

Emphasizing the need for the provision of adequate resources for the focal area of land degradation, primarily desertification and deforestation, of the Global Environment Facility,

Its principal task is to provide scientific advice to the sponsoring agencies concerning the prevention, reduction and control of the degradation of the marine environment.

Because from a planning perspective, economic degradation begets environmental degradation, which begets social degradation.

Furthermore it addresses objectives of the Action Plan for Enhancing GEF Support to Land Degradation, adopted by the GEF Council in December 1999, by contributing to the creation of an enabling environment for addressing land degradation and identifying key stakeholders with capacity to combat land degradation from local, national and subregional to international levels.

Conflicts continue to rage in many parts of the world, while humankind continues to live under the spectre of poverty and the degradation of the environment.

My delegation attaches great significance to the marine environment and supports the implementation of Part XII of the Convention, which deals with the protection and preservation of the marine environment and resources from pollution and physical degradation.

Recognizing the need for the provision of adequate resources for Global Environment Facility focal areas, including a focus on land degradation, primarily desertification and deforestation,

Types of land degradation

Worse though, half of the population does not have access to drinkable water and the degradation of the environment is a cause of serious diseases, including among children.

Noting that the global environment continues to suffer degradation, causing a negative impact on the realization of the right to food, in particular in developing countries,

Noting that the global environment continues to suffer degradation causing a negative impact on the realization of the right to food, in particular in developing countries,

In an effort to mitigate the degradation of environment resulting from the presence of refugees in Côte d apos Ivoire and Guinea, a four year environment rehabilitation programme for refugee affected areas has been initiated by UNHCR in 1997.

12. Environment and food security. Environmental issues are being addressed through a strategy of reversing environmental degradation, while at the same time ensuring the sustainability of natural resources.

Since the adoption of the Rio Declaration on Environment and Development and Agenda 21, the poor had continued to grow poorer and environmental degradation had also continued.

45. Urges all States to implement the Global Programme of Action for the Protection of the Marine Environment from Land based ActivitiesA 51 116, annex II. and to accelerate activity to safeguard the marine environment against pollution and physical degradation

8. Calls upon the Global Environment Facility to continue to enhance, within its mandate, its ongoing support for land degradation activities in developing countries

Nevertheless, we remain hopeful that the growing awareness of the degradation of the environment and the need to reverse this trend will remain a priority on the global agenda.

5. Invites the Council of the Global Environment Facility at its May 2003 meeting to finalize and adopt the operational programme for land degradation, particularly desertification and deforestation

Protection of the environment is a high priority, as illicit crop cultivation and illicit drug production result in environmental degradation and the safe disposal of seized chemical substances is essential.

Protection of the environment is a high priority, as illicit crop cultivation and illicit drug production result in environmental degradation, and the safe disposal of seized chemical substances is essential.

The Programme of Action is the global mechanism aimed at addressing the linkages between freshwater and the coastal and marine environment and the significant impacts on human health, poverty alleviation and food security from the continued degradation of the coastal and marine environment.

Human activities which affect the right to a healthy environment also take the form of deforestation which over the centuries has led to substantial forest losses and environmental degradation.

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