The first set of issues includes slow burn problems involving externalities, the leading example being environmental degradation.

Environmental degradation has become one of the main threats to life on earth.

66. Another important factor linked to development was that of environmental degradation.

33. It is recognized that environmental degradation is most often the result of small scale mining operations.

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Environmental sanitation, Gaza

Poverty and environmental degradation are closely related.

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,

Environmental degradation appears to reinforce links between poverty and high fertility.

These include, among other problems, ethnic and religious conflicts, environmental degradation and poverty.

It would mean the perpetuation of poverty, hunger, illness, illiteracy and environmental degradation.

Alone, we cannot cope with environmental degradation, with terrorism or with poverty.

It will also carry out a detailed expert review of each EPR prior to the Committee's peer review and report on it to the Committee.

One of the Agency apos s main concerns in the health area was the deteriorating environmental situation, especially in the Gaza Strip.

Several examples of successful initiatives to improve the integration of the very poorest segments of society into the market economy were highlighted, such as the One Tambon One Product (OTOP) scheme of Thailand Identified that environmental degradation resulted from the fact that Governments often focused on economic development alone.

In addition, the Israeli authorities had uprooted fruit trees and had dumped toxic wastes which had contaminated soils and polluted the environment.

Preparations for the fourth assessment report on the state of the environment

Keeping the world environmental situation under review

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We are all potential victims of scourges such as AIDS, environmental degradation, organized crime, terrorism and underdevelopment.

Those problems included the deterioration of the economies of the developing countries, refugees, the AIDS pandemic and the destruction of the global environment.

Monitoring of the radiation status of the environment and ensuring radiation safety

Production and testing of weapons have contributed to environmental degradation.

It distinguishes progress in policy development from progress in improvsing die quality of die environment which sometimes lags behind policy development.

At the turn of the century there was a growing recognition of the fact that the contemporary challenges of pandemic disease, environmental degradation and terrorism demanded a global response.

The collaborative efforts which are being undertaken through a variety of programmes are aimed at reversing and halting the degradation of the African environment.

Space technology could be the key to solving such major contemporary problems as environmental degradation and the need for sustainable development.

(iii) loss or damage by impairment of the environment

Item 5 Preparations for the fourth assessment report on the state of the environment

The prospects for development are also threatened by the staggering pace of the degradation of the environment.

Environmental health feasibility studies, Gaza

South Africa shares global concerns about the degradation of the marine environment.

(e) Mangrove degradation

In addition, the safe and secure storage of fissile material is a matter of urgency if further environmental degradation in consequence of a comprehensive disarmament process is to be prevented.

In urban areas, environmental strains are also prompting people to move.

Uruguay has incorporated in a cross border agreement with Brazil the concept of responsibility for environmental degradation.

Poverty, population problems and environmental degradation have become a common threat to the well being of mankind.

Medical University Vienna, Environmental Health Institute, Austria

For Palau, the environment is our economic future.

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

Achieving the target of environmental sustainability is also a formidable challenge.

Increased drug use and trafficking, high suicide and homicide rates, a structural economic crisis and environmental degradation were all symptoms of the larger political problem.

All environmental problems, such as degradation, desertification and erosion, were of concern to the Government.

(a) Article 96 of the Environmental Protection ActEPA obligateses the State to carry out the monitoring of natural phenomena, the state of the environment and environmental pollution.