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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

(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.

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,

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.

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.

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,

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,

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.

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

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

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.

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

The NAPs draw up an inventory of the environment in the area affected by land degradation and identify priorities for action using the results of scientific research and assessments carried out.

The United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD) undertook a research study on the interaction between global impoverishment and the environment in the Least Developed Countries (LDCs) showing how poverty, environmental degradation (deforestation, desertification and soil degradation) and population growth are interlinked in the LDCs.

General description There is a need to phase out production and the consumption of ozone depleting substances (ODSs), which are leading to the continuing degradation of human health and the natural environment.

When the millennium opened, world leaders pledged to seek peace, the end of poverty, and a cleaner environment. Since then, the world has seen countless acts of violence, terrorism, famine, and environmental degradation.

Evidence indicates that industrial development and patterns of energy production and consumption must change in favour of those that bring sustainability to workplaces and communities and that reverse the degradation of our natural environment.

My delegation is concerned that the growing deterioration of the marine environment and the overexploitation of living marine resources could have a negative effect on global efforts to prevent the degradation of the environment and to ensure sustainable development, including with regard to geographical diversity and mountain ecosystems.

Considering the very slow rate of degradation of most marine litter items, a continuous input of large quantities of marine litter will result in a gradual increase of litter in the coastal and marine environment.

Recognizing the potential impacts of environmental degradation and climate change on sustainable socio economic growth, most Parties mentioned their efforts to pursue development programmes that also benefit the environment and climate change.

For example, during 1997 and 1998, together with the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP), several Governments and local communities organized seven regional workshops on the problematique of underlying causes of deforestation and forest degradation.

25. Emphasizes the importance of the implementation of Part XII of the Convention in order to protect and preserve the marine environment, including coastal areas, and its living marine resources against pollution and physical degradation

We welcome the decision to make the Global Environment Facility (GEF) a financial mechanism of the Convention and ask for a significant increase for the land degradation focal area during the GEF 4 replenishment

He concluded by underscoring that more information was needed regarding the state of the oceans in order to address such questions as the degradation of the marine environment, and the conservation and sustainable use of marine biodiversity.

13. Recalls the fourth replenishment of the Global Environment Facility Trust Fund,Global Environment Facility, document GEF A.3 6. Available from www.gefweb.org. stresses the importance of the fulfilment of the commitments made, and emphasizes in this regard the need to continue to allocate adequate financial resources to the focal area of land degradation

Sufficient food availability is directly dependent upon, among other factors, elements linked to the natural physical environment, its degree of integrity or degradation in its exploitation and management, and thus its protection and improvement with time.

Certain projects currently in progress in countries or pilot areas are endeavouring to produce vulnerability maps of degradation or the risk of land degradation.