Примеры использования Low-lying atolls на Английском языке и их переводы на Русский язык
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The threat of rising sea levels to low-lying atolls can leave nobody indifferent.
We are gravely concerned at the threat that climate change poses to the very survival of low-lying atolls.
Among island countries, the low-lying atolls suffer the most from water scarcity.
The impacts of climate change are already undermining development progress and increasingly threaten populations andthe territorial integrity of low-lying atolls.
Like other places,our small island States and low-lying atolls face a host of constraints.
My country, all low-lying atolls, with no mountains, is also facing a most serious threat of sea level rise.
The Declaration is a call that comes from a region where the problems of ecological degradation are acutely felt, from the Himalayan hills to the low-lying atolls of the Indian Ocean.
There are real hazards to low-lying atolls from another by-product of this era of environmental crisis.
As the President stated, the Declaration emphasizes the disappointment of the countries of the region,extending from the high Himalayas to the low-lying atolls of the Indian Ocean, with the laggardly implementation of the Rio commitments.
This is most severe in the low-lying atolls that have little opportunity for surface-water catchment and storage.
Given the particular vulnerability of Pacific small island developing States, a single extreme weather event can suddenly exceed a nation's capacity to respond,rendering whole islands, particularly low-lying atolls, uninhabitable.
Marshall Islands consists predominantly of low-lying atolls that are an average of two metres above sea level.
Small islands and low-lying atolls in Papua New Guinea and the Pacific region are being submerged by rising sea levels.
In addition to the threat from introduced predators, the low-lying atolls on which it survives are threatened by rising sea levels.
For some countries,in particular low-lying atolls, inundation and the loss of land from sea-level rise pose a potential threat to the continued existence of the States themselves.
Changes in sea level would affect small, low-lying atolls and high temperatures would facilitate the spread of disease.
It was noted that the regions include both low-lying atolls and high volcanic islands, and that existing vulnerability studies often do not differentiate between the regions with regard to vulnerability and expected impacts.
These effects have a great impact on agriculture in the FSM where low-lying atolls experience salt water intrusion into agricultural land and destruction of staple food crops.
In addition, a number of small island developing States composed of low-lying atolls could face an existential risk of becoming uninhabitable owing to climate change impacts, in particular a rise in sea level.
Of course, as a nation of remote andwidely dispersed small islands, many of which are low-lying atolls, we experience all the difficulties recognized in section G of chapter 17 of Agenda 21 as inhibiting the development of small island countries.
Sea-level rise is an existential threat to low-lying atoll islands.
However, for a low-lying atoll like the Marshall Islands the Framework Convention may have come too late.
The melting of the Greenland and Antarctic ice sheets, not taken into account in the Fourth Assessment Report,would cause a major rise in sea levels which particularly threatened the low-lying atoll islands of Kiribati, the Marshall Islands and Tuvalu with loss of territorial integrity.
The very existence of low-lying atoll nations, such as Kiribati, Maldives, the Marshall Islands and Tuvalu, is threatened by climate change-induced sea-level rise A/65/115.
The most pressing and mounting challenge, however, is an effective response to climate change, which threatens to further increase the vulnerability of Pacific small island developing States,erode their development progress and ultimately the territorial sovereignty of the low-lying atoll countries.
Climate change and resulting sea level rise is an existential threat to many low-lying atoll nations and a serious concern for all small island developing States, particularly due to their limited human and technological capacity for mitigating and adapting to the effects of climate change see sect. III, D.
Kiribati consists of low-lying coral atolls and is particularly vulnerable to the impact of global warming and sea-level rise.
Kiribati comprises low-lying coral atolls and is therefore very vulnerable to climate change, climate variability and sea-level rise.
Remoteness of Atolls and Islands As noted above,the RMI's 29 low-lying coral atolls and 5 and islands are scattered over 750,000 sq. miles of water.
The archipelago consists of 41 granitic islands which are the oldest mid-oceanic granite islands on earth and 74 low-lying coral atolls and reef islands which make up the Outer Islands.