The challenges of the alarming rate of deforestation and forest degradation remain serious.

Despite substantial progress in the formulation and implementation of national forest policies, deforestation and forest degradation continue at an alarming rate.

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

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.

Combating deforestation and forest degradation

LADA Dryland Degradation Assessment Project

LADA Dryland Degradation Assessment Project

Theft, extortion, destruction, degradation and damage

Non governmental organizations are also deeply concerned about the lack of action taken by key actors, including Governments, intergovernmental organizations, and the private sector, among others, to curb the deforestation and forest degradation currently occurring at an alarming rate.

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

As the GEF land degradation executing agency linked to the GM, IFAD has the opportunity to match land degradation to poverty reduction and development concerns.

Conversely, deforestation can contribute to land degradation and desertification.

The environmental degradation is obvious even to casual observers. And economists have started to calculate that if China were to continue its prodigious growth rate, it would soon occupy far too large a share of the global economy to maintain its recent export trajectory.

(g) Perverse subsidies and their impact on deforestation and forest degradation

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

While the implementation of the plan of action and the multi year plan of work have contributed, along with other activities at the global, regional and national level, to promoting sustainable forest management throughout the world, the high rate of deforestation and forest degradation remain serious challenges.

In response to questions about the anaerobic degradation of appliances in landfills, Mr. Ashford said that research was only in its early stages and that it was important to establish the nature of the degradation products before looking at what could be done to look at enhancing the process of anaerobic degradation.

Disasters may be both a consequence and a cause of environmental degradation.

Theft, extortion, destruction, degradation and damage, as well as computer related offences

(6) Control of Land Degradation and Desertification processes in the insular Caribbean

And along with economic growth have come environmental degradation and climate change.

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

Syria states that the degradation and loss of decorations ornamentation is evident.

(e) information on GEF replenishment agreements and the funding programmed for land degradation

Syria states that samples were collected to evaluate the degradation of each artefact.

Through conservation agriculture practices, farmers contribute to reducing emissions while combating land degradation.

In cases where imported goods, to which contractual tariff rate or preferential tariff rate is applicable are subject to temporary rate, the lower tariff rate shall apply.

Degradation products of VX were found on missile warhead fragments by one national laboratory.

The problems of poverty, hunger, disease, illiteracy and environmental degradation continue to haunt us.

Land degradation is sometimes monitored under regional programmes or in cooperation with international agencies.

Activation of the full audit trail will result in severe degradation of system performance.

Activation of the full audit trail would result in severe degradation of system performance.

This contribution was provided to undertake land degradation projects in some African country Parties.

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.

At the regional and subregional levels, FAO has initiated and prepared the Land Degradation Assessment in the Drylands (LADA), used to develop tools and methods to assess and quantify the nature, extent and severity of land degradation.

The malnutrition rate and the child mortality rate have been reduced.

Conscious of the particular vulnerability of the small Territories to natural disasters and environmental degradation,

Conscious of the particular vulnerability of the small Territories to natural disasters and environmental degradation,

Conscious of the particular vulnerability of the small Territories to natural disasters and environmental degradation,

In North Africa, natural resource degradation and depletion, especially water, is an increasingly serious problem.

Recalling the provisions of decision 19 COP.6 on Land Degradation Assessment in Drylands (LADA),

Disagreements among different levels of government have contributed to uncontrolled logging and degradation of forestlands.

Activation of the full audit trail will result in a severe degradation of system performance.

Those areas are also prone to environmental degradation and tensions between host communities and newcomers.

Table 1.6 Total birth rate and population growth rate in Viet Nam ( )