Desertification contributes significantly to climate change and biodiversity loss.

These include climate change, ozone depletion, chemical issues and loss of biodiversity.

Now, the system may gradually under pressure of climate change, erosion, biodiversity loss

lakes, and even oceans, and it's also the single biggest driver of biodiversity loss.

Hunger and desperate means of producing food had led to an unprecedented loss of biodiversity.

Land use planning and tourism development control is crucial to preventing the loss of biodiversity.

Deforestation Deforestation is a major concern for Ethiopia as studies suggest loss of forest contributes to soil erosion, loss of nutrients in the soil, loss of animal habitats and reduction in biodiversity.

Recognizing the negative impact of environmental degradation, including climate change, desertification and loss of biodiversity, on human settlements,

The result would be floods, drought, dramatically reduced food production, and a great loss of our precious biodiversity.

Another serious concern is loss of biodiversity, which is occurring at an unprecedented rate within and across countries.

land use change, rate of biodiversity loss, freshwater use, functions which regulate biomass on the planet, carbon sequestration, diversity.

The Forum should prepare recommendations to the United Nations system, other intergovernmental organizations and Governments to address the loss of indigenous traditional knowledge linked to the environmental destruction of indigenous peoples' territories, the loss of indigenous cultural diversity, the loss of biodiversity and the loss of languages.

And on coral reefs, where some of the main framework organisms disappear, we will see a major loss of marine biodiversity.

Implement the Convention on Biological Diversity and the Johannesburg commitment to significantly reduce the rate of loss of biodiversity by 2010

Livestock is also one of the biggest culprits in land degradation, air and water pollution, water shortages and loss of biodiversity.

And on coral reefs, where some of the main framework organisms disappear, we will see a major loss of marine biodiversity.

Foreseen impacts on forest ecosystems included increased fire hazard, loss of moisture, shifts in forest extent and type, loss of biodiversity, loss of fodder, increased incidence of tree stand mortality due to diseases, and reduction in food production and animal habitats.

For many Parties, climate change would reduce land cover, displace change ecosystems and species composition, and lead to loss of biodiversity.

Because decreased biodiversity results in less resistant crops and loss of ecosystem services, pest infestations and weather variability increase agricultural stresses.

One example of such cooperation is the UNESCO programme on minimizing biodiversity loss through research and capacity building for ecosystem management.

They still raise traditional issues of biodiversity loss, destruction of sites of natural beauty and cultural importance, and social justice issues surrounding resettlement.

It was also important to strengthen international arrangements on the protection of forests in order to reverse the loss of ecosystems and biodiversity.

The underlying genetic diversity of marine organisms therefore has tremendous potential economic importance that would not be realized by the loss of marine biodiversity.

51. Also calls upon States to develop national, regional and international programmes for halting the loss of marine biodiversity, in particular fragile ecosystems

Second, we should initiate IPCC like scientific processes for other global challenges, including the global loss of biodiversity, desertification, and over fishing of the oceans.

In that regard, he welcomed the resolve of the international community to fulfil its commitments to significantly reduce the rate of biodiversity loss by 2010.

The transformation of grasslands into deserts due to deforestation, encroachment into forests for subsistence farming, overgrazing, and loss of biodiversity and soil threaten the entire continent.

On the whole, combating desertification yields multiple local and global benefits and helps mitigate biodiversity loss and human induced global climate change.

survival of local communities is threatened as a result of the loss of marine biodiversity that is at the center of many of their worldviews and spiritual beliefs.

The list of urgent concerns is topped by global warming, but also includes terrorism, pesticides, and the loss of biodiversity and seems to have virtually no end.

The Price of Biodiversity

J. Conservation of biodiversity

Management of biodiversity

He highlighted the unprecedented loss of biodiversity, severely undermining health, livelihoods, food production and clean water, and increasing the vulnerability of populations to natural disasters and climate change.

The IUCN offers support to African countries and vulnerable small islands in order to help them overcome the combined effects of land degradation, climate change and loss of biodiversity.

Marine biodiversity

Biodiversity assessments

Biodiversity resources

In particular, in the Johannesburg Declaration on Sustainable Development,178 States noted the continuing loss of biodiversity and resolved to protect it, through decisions on targets, timetables and partnerships.

He emphasized that industrial and agricultural pressures on the environment provoked deforestation, desertification, loss of biodiversity, ozone depletion and global warming, and posed an increasing threat to freshwater sources.

Conservation and management of marine biodiversity

The Biodiversity Bargain

Instruments addressing biodiversity

6. Biodiversity resources.

f. Biodiversity resources