Search results

… the elderly, and people with lung or cardiovascular disease. It reduces the ability of plants to absorb carbon … productivity, thus negatively impacting livelihoods, disease control and food security. They can also cause a … used in the nuclear weapons industry and chronic beryllium disease has been diagnosed in workers, despite exposure …

… the atmospheric contamination contributes to respiratory disease. Mercury containing hospital products that are … substances, in particular asbestos, which can cause lung disease. The poor, and particularly women, children and the … are ambitious, and include curbing poverty, hunger, disease, illiteracy, environmental degradation and …

… chemicals already in the environment, e.g. pesticides, or disease outbreaks after natural disasters. Investing in … underwater noise, ship strikes, poisoning, pollution, disease, invasive species, illegal and unsustainable take and … preamble recognizes the substantial lessons of Minamata Disease, in particular the serious health and environmental …

… Development Goals (MDGs), to combat poverty, hunger, disease, illiteracy, environmental degradation and … healthier. In some countries, more than one third of the disease burden could be prevented through environmental … main victims and make up 74% of deaths due to diarrhoeal disease and lower respiratory infections. Low income …

… limits the production and use of DDT to controlling disease vectors such as malarial mosquitoes in accordance … limits the production and use of DDT to controlling disease vectors such as malarial mosquitoes in accordance … and use of DDT for controlling mosquitoes and other disease vectors in accordance with World Health Organization …

… in a timeframe of 2-3 years since its adoption. 9 Minamata Disease is a serious and irreversible neurological syndrome … and, in extreme cases, paralysis and death. Minamata Disease was named after the Japanese city that was the centre … people died in 1956, the year the �rst cases of the disease were detected. More than 111 casualties and 400 cases …

… in particular, shall take appropriate measures “to combat disease and malnutrition… through the provision of adequate …

… as do mortality and illness from heat waves, drought, disease and malnutrition. In general, the greater the … in eastern and southern Africa were at risk of hunger, disease and lack of water because of drought conditions. Lake …