Desertification contributes significantly to climate change and biodiversity loss.

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

Impacts were found to be negative in general. 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.

3. Urges all Member States to fulfil their commitments to significantly reduce the rate of loss of biodiversity by 2010, and emphasizes that this will require an appropriate focus on the loss of biodiversity in their relevant policies and programmes and the continued provision of new and additional financial and technical resources to developing countries, including through the Global Environmental Facility

5. Urges all Member States to fulfil their commitments to significantly reduce the rate of loss of biodiversity by 2010, and emphasizes that this will require an appropriate focus on the loss of biodiversity in their relevant policies and programmes and the continued provision of new and additional financial and technical resources to developing countries, including through the Global Environment Facility

3. Urges all Member States to fulfil their commitments to significantly reduce the rate of loss of biodiversity by 2010, and emphasizes that this will require an appropriate focus on the loss of biodiversity in their relevant policies and programmes and the continued provision of new and additional financial and technical resources to developing countries, including through the Global Environment Facility

Urges all Member States to fulfil their commitments to significantly reduce the rate of loss of biodiversity by 2010, and emphasizes that this will require an appropriate focus on the loss of biodiversity in their relevant policies and programmes and the continued provision of new and additional financial and technical resources to developing countries, including through the Global Environmental Facility

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.

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

At the moment, Europe depends on importing millions of tons of soy from South America, where its production contributes to global warming, to deforestation, to biodiversity loss, to feed livestock here in Europe.

The international community had not done enough to respond to the destruction of ecosystems, land and soil degradation, loss of forests, fisheries and biodiversity, air and water pollution, and excessive consumption of fresh water.

The Biodiversity Bargain

The Biodiversity Challenge

2. Designates the secretariat of the Convention on Biological Diversity as the focal point for the International Year of Biodiversity, and invites the secretariat to cooperate with other relevant United Nations bodies, multilateral environmental agreements, international organizations and other stakeholders, with a view to bringing greater international attention to bear on the issue of the continued loss of biodiversity

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The Price of Biodiversity

Tourism and biodiversity conservation

The lesson from Chernobyl is that if nature is to thrive, it must be given space from us. The primary causes behind declining global biodiversity include habitat loss and fragmentation as a result of human activity.

Now, the system may gradually under pressure of climate change, erosion, biodiversity loss lose the depth of the cup, the resilience, but appear to be healthy and appear to suddenly, under a threshold, be tipping over. Upff.

To reverse these trends, all Governments should take steps, individually and collectively, to implement the Convention on Biological Diversity8 and the Johannesburg commitment to achieve a significant reduction in the rate of loss of biodiversity by 2010.9

Technical support from UNU has ensured that the PLEC partners could make the necessary effort to carry out activities on sustainable land management to mitigate desertification and loss of biodiversity as well as to alleviate rural poverty58.

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Seamounts are important for biodiversity.

C. Public goods and biodiversity

Deeply concerned by the social, economic, environmental and cultural implications of the loss of biodiversity, including negative impacts on the achievement of the Millennium Development Goals, and stressing the necessity to adopt concrete measures in order to reverse it,

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