Examples of using Desertification issues in English and their translations into Russian
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The link between poverty reduction and desertification issues is strong.
UNEP and UNESCO have collaborated on desertification issues since the mid seventies when the first world map of desertification was produced for UNCOD.
Providing scientific evidence andearly warning on desertification issues.
To monitor executive actions and whether desertification issues are included in overall government agendas;
To develop an interactive CD Rom comprising, inter-alia, the history of the Convention andrelevant documents on desertification issues;
The climax was the holding of a national forum on desertification issues, in March 1998, whose output was the NAP Document.
In parallel with Bonn Desert Day, a panel discussion was organized at the headquarters of Deutsche Welle with the participation of internationally recognized experts on desertification issues.
This would include the integration of desertification issues in educational curricula and strategies for communication with national public opinion.
In cooperation with Russian national institutions, UNEP produced some publications on desertification issues and disseminated them in CIS countries.
Of those respondents who had received training, the most common type of climate-related training was disaster risk management/ early warning systems,followed by training in desertification issues.
Planning for international workshops on desertification issues or establishment of desertification control centres China, Iran, Israel.
The crucial role of sensitizing allstakeholders in affected areas, through education and training on desertification issues and increasing political awareness.
Popular awareness of desertification issues and the need to preserve and protect natural resources and land will endure as a major strategic pillar with a view to achieving the objectives and requirements of sustainable development.
He called for comprehensive support for the implementation of theConvention to Combat Desertification, including assistance in mainstreaming desertification issues into development strategies.
In external relations, high priority is given to awareness-raising and advocacy for desertification issues, in particular with regard to the linkage between the combat against desertification and eradication of poverty, as well as advancing implementation of the completed action programmes.
The partnerships have helped concerned organizations to forge a common vision on how best to support the implementation of the CCD, to increase synergies andenhance the knowledge based on desertification issues.
In addition, thirty-three countries andorganizations expressed their intentions regarding the urgent action for Africa during debate on desertification issues at the forty-ninth General Assembly session of October 21 and October 25.
The secretariat of the United Nations Convention to Combat Desertification in those Countries Experiencing Serious Drought and/or Desertification, particularly in Africa,15 has collaborated with various subregional organizations in Africa on desertification issues.
Most of the vast amount of scientific and technological information on desertification issues is contained in various journals and proceedings, or on websites, or is simply not recorded at all, and so is not readily available for the purpose of improving the knowledge base of the Convention or contributing to its implementation.
The Workshop on Combating Desertification in North-East Asia was held in Seoul on 19 July 1999 in collaboration with UNDP andthe North-East Asia Forest Forum to discuss desertification issues in North-East Asia, which includes China, Mongolia and the Korean peninsula.
The various mobilization and financial mechanisms- such as the Global Mechanism, the Global Environment Facility, the Clean Energy Investment Framework of the World Bank or the recently launched United Nations Development Programme(UNDP) Carbon Facility- are relevant for projects and programmes combating land degradation and soil erosion; they must be better coordinated andopened more widely to desertification issues.
It is stated that action for approximation of national legislation to the Convention has to be included in the NAP, for example, the preparation of draft laws, regulations(sub-laws) andamendments to existing legislation concerning desertification issues, as well as the preparation of draft projects on institutional arrangements dealing with desertification issues. .
We acknowledge the encouraging signs of progress contained in the 151 national reports which were submitted to the UNCCD for review in Rome, Italy,from 11 to 22 November 2002; however, we deplore the fact that too often national poverty eradication programmes supported by the donor community do not take desertification issues sufficiently into account;
Other projects aim to support the policies promotion and implementation and/or the exchange of information, such as MEDACTION(covering policies for land use to combat desertification, with the objective ofdeveloping an information and decision-support base on desertification issues in the Northern Mediterranean to assist decision makers) and MEDRAP(concerted action to support the Northern Mediterranean RAP to combat desertification) and focusing on building tools to support the elaboration of the Annex IV RAP. Both activities ended in 2004.
In this regard, the Global Mechanism is collaborating with member organizations of the European Network for Research on Desertification within the context of DryNet, a project funded by the European Commission and designed to strengthen national civil society networks in 22 countries andbuild their capacity to promote desertification issues within national and international policy processes.
By having GEF serve as a financial mechanism to UNCCD, developing country Parties are reasonably assured that they may access multilateral funding for land degradation and sustainable land management projects, even iftheir national focal point on desertification issues is unable to prevail in national-level negotiations to establish sustainable land management as a national development priority.
The desertification issue is embedded in existing food security and drought warning systems.
There is a significant potential for the establishment of efficient linkages to the desertification issue within the framework of some ongoing and planned bilateral and multilateral projects.
Presently the focus is on awareness raising for the Convention and the desertification issue at different levels.
Consider the desertification issue in the light of the objectives set out in article 2 of the Convention;