Traduction de «haie du fossé d'eau » (Français → Anglais) :

21. Emphasises the need for the Commission to call on the Member States to promote the reintroduction of environmentally-friendly agricultural activities in mountain areas to combat hydrogeological instability and to promote water regulation by reintroducing the good practices of creating ditches, drains and embankments, which make it possible, in the event of excessive rain, to reduce the negative impact downstream and, in the event of drought, to guarantee stored water resources that can also be used to fight forest fires;

There are farmers in the Fraser Valley who have created a ditch in the back of their property and all of a sudden that ditch becomes fish habitat because water flows through it for two or three months.

Thee five areas we will concentrate on are peace and security, i.e., conflict prevention; governance in all its forms political governance, economic governance, administrative, judicial, etc; knowledge and health, knowledge being more than education and including digital divide, distance learning, distance health, information technology, etc.; health, it goes without saying and you know that better than most of us meaning AIDS, malaria, all those diseases that most Canadians have never heard of, trying to engage the phenomenon whereby 90% of the world's medical research is done on 10% of the world's maladies, i.e. those that affect us ...[+++]; trade and investment, trade meaning market access, diminishing export subsidies, opening our markets to their products, and if we expect investment to be one of the major saviours of Africa, when they produce things as a result of that investment, we have to be able to take them; agriculture and water ten years ago over 25% of our ODA investment was in the area of agriculture, today it's less than 7%, and on the water side, one African in two drinks dirty water, and we have to change that (1650) The Chair: Thank you.

11. Calls on the industrialised countries to explore new and innovative ways to promote technology cooperation and technology transfer with developing countries, notably LDCs, bridge the digital divide and facilitate "technological leapfrogging' in areas such as energy, transport, waste management, water management, trade, agriculture and sanitation;

The UN Secretary-General’s evaluation was that the Rio Summit was a 'landmark event to secure economic, social and environmental well being for present and future generations’ Ten years later, the world takes note that man-made climate change is unabated, vital biodiversity resources such as water, forests and fisheries are being further and dangerously depleted and the abyss between rich and poor within and among states opens wider every day.

9. Calls on the industrialised countries to explore new and innovative ways to promote technology cooperation and technology transfer with developing countries, notably LDCs, to bridge the digital divide and to facilitate ‘technological leapfrogging’ in areas such as energy, transport, waste management, water management, trade, agriculture and sanitary standards;