Yet I cannot help feeling that even the grim picture painted in the report fails to capture fully the daunting difficulties that confront the environment today.
Multiply up from one country, and the menu of options confronting the world's environment ministers - who are meeting in Poznan, Poland this week - becomes bewildering.
Confronting the toxic food environment should be the focus of public health departments, practitioners, policymakers, and researchers concerned with rising rates of obesity.
The economic environment confronting the company had weakened significantly since January and grew sharply worse in June, Mr. Chenault continued.
The euro zone's situation is so dire that four countries (Cyprus, Greece, Poland and Portugal) have decided they cannot afford to take part in next year's Eurovision Song Contest.This slow-growth environment is confronting the West with all sorts of unwelcome questions.
Mr. Medvedev always listened politely to Mrs. Merkel and other European leaders when they warned about the need to strengthen the rule of law but also confront the declining population, environment and infrastructure of Russia.
It's been a painful birth, but it would be a very big reward to secure a set of global goals that are truly universal, that integrate development and the environment, and confront the root causes of our current crises.
Elin went to confront the dull-looking, bespectacled environment minister, who was vague about his liaison with Sarah.
When we confront the complicated and uncertain environment, one of challenges is to estimate the loss function of DTRSs.
"It makes sense that those circuits involved with mood, emotions, confronting challenges in the environment," said Dr. Levitt, "were themselves shaped by the environment early on" — a placental tutorial, written in serotonin and ultimately courtesy of mom.
