In that regard, UNEP was paying special attention to the increasing severity of desertification and land degradation, the dramatic decrease in biodiversity and genetic resources, the increasing threat of chemicals to human health, the drastic consequences of climate change, and unsustainable consumption and production patterns.
The Committee is deeply concerned at the dramatic decrease of resources allocated to social sectors, notably health and education, over the past decade while the budget allocated to defence has increased dramatically over the same period.
There is little doubt that strong economic growth in East Asia, particularly in China, has been an important factor in the dramatic decrease in poverty.
In his opening remarks, the UNFPA Executive Director, highlighting that 2014 marked the twentieth anniversary of the International Conference on Population and Development (ICPD), drew attention to some of its important achievements: from the unprecedented numbers of girls in schools to the dramatic decrease in women dying in childbirth, from rising numbers of people able to exercise their reproductive rights to falling global fertility rates.
Of particular note is the dramatic decrease in resources devoted to development, including those managed by the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP).
The dramatic decrease in international personnel and expertise, and the possible decrease in resources, at least in the initial period, will have to be appropriately factored into the planning for the post-independence period.
His country recognized the importance of publications for an analytical organization such as UNCTAD, and the dramatic decrease in the number of publications in the current biennium must have been achieved through a serious review process.
The Committee welcomes the adoption of the Charter of the Rights of the Child in Hospital and takes note of the dramatic decrease in the number of deaths of children resulting from road traffic accidents and in the number of children infected by HIV/AIDS.
Accompanying the dramatic decreases in birth and fertility rates, the proportion of children in the general population has also declined, while that of the elderly has risen; the age structure of China's population is changing from a youth-dominated to an aging model.
When we look at the latest economic crisis from the perspective of spatial economics, underlying the crisis was a dramatic decrease in broadly-defined "transportation costs" associated with the international transfer of goods, people, money, and information over the past half century.
Fifty-two years after the establishment in Cuba of a more just and equitable social system for all, her country had an infant mortality rate of 4.8 per 1,000 live births, the lowest in Latin America and among the lowest in the world. That dramatic decrease since the pre-1959 era had been achieved by means of a public and universal health-care system based on the idea of putting the people's needs before commercial and economic interests.
"In my view the greatest success of the German energy transition was giving a boost to the Chinese solar panel industry," said Ralf Fücks, the president of the Heinrich-Bö ll-Stiftung, the German Green Party's political foundation. "We created the mass market, and that led to the increased productivity and dramatic decrease in cost." And all this in a country whose northern tip is the same latitude as the southern tip of Alaska!
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