Climate change will add to other stresses such as rapid urbanization, industrialization and economic development, which contribute to unsustainable exploitation of natural resources Cause , increased pollution, land degradation and other environmental problems. [ 7IPCCREGION 0 SB TK MCLH 08/05/2015 ]

Development with modern knowledge offers many opportunities to avoid past unsustainable practices Cause and move more rapidly towards better technologies, techniques and associated institutions. [ 9IPCCSRTT 0 SB TK MCLH 08/05/2015 ]

Global warming may well affect the development of such developing economies, particularly if current rates of deforestation remain unchecked and the unsustainable management of forests Cause continues. [ ENCY 0 SB TK MCLH 08/05/2015 ]

Climate change represents an important additional stress on those systems already affected by increasing resource demands, unsustainable management practices Cause and pollution, which in many cases may be equal to or greater than those of climate change. [ 7IPCCREGION 0 SB TK MCLH 08/05/2015 ]

If, for example, the biomass is harvested at an unsustainable rate Cause (that is, faster than the annual re-growth) , the net CO2 emissions of the activity might not be negative. [ 5IPCCDYOXYDE 0 SB TK MCLH 08/05/2015 ]

Integrated land and water management (or landscape management) options include removing policy distortions that result in loss and or unsustainable use of biodiversity Cause ... [ 2IPCCBIODIVERSITE 0 SB TK MCLH 08/05/2015 ]

These changes will be aggravated by unsustainable exploitation levels Cause and environmental change (high confidence). [ 3IPCCCONSEQUENCE 0 SB TK MCLH 08/05/2015 ]