Consider also the depletion of ocean fisheries through over fishing.

Investors also need to consider carbon bubbles, the overvaluation of fossil fuel companies based on the assumption that they will be able to continue burning the world s reserves until depletion.

However, statistical estimates of its depletion hide much more than they reveal.

Africa s natural gas reserves amount to about 8 of global reserves.

Then there is the destruction of Venezuelan industry, the spectacular increase in violence, the explosion of foreign debt, and the depletion of foreign currency reserves that has accompanied Chávez s so called Bolivarian socialism of the twenty first century.

Today, Egypt not only remains vulnerable to unstable domestic politics owing to the depletion of its international reserves at a rate of roughly 2 billion a month since last October the country now also faces the threat of a currency crisis.

Yet advanced countries still account for more than 40 of global consumption and resource depletion.

Second, countries with large accumulations of dollar reserves will be shifting substantial fractions of those reserves into euros.

It has 10 of global oil reserves.

Covering this drop in reserves more than half of gas reserves and a fifth of oil reserves have been consumed with imports implies an annual cost of more than 300 billion.

We have rich reserves of gas and coal.

Selling 2 trillion of reserves will take years.

The country has significant reserves of natural gas.

Call In the Reserves

The increasing population density in rural Africa, with its intensification of farming, is leading to massive soil depletion.

Reserves are like savings accounts.

We teamed up underwater photographer Brian Skerry and photojournalist Randy Olson to document the depletion of the world's fisheries.

The final pitfall is excessively rapid depletion of oil or mineral deposits, in violation of optimal rates of saving, let alone environmental preservation.

The US Federal Reserve Board has pumped out trillions of dollars of reserves, but never have so many reserves produced so little monetary growth.

What we saw in the destruction of the Bamiyan Buddhas was the depletion of matter, some solid substance falling down and disintegrating.

I do not envy future generations for having to address the possible ramifications of global warming and fresh water depletion.

Certainly, oil reserves are not infinite.

Parks and nature reserves make up 12 of Amsterdam's land area.

Rapidly intensifying water scarcity reflects bulging populations, depletion of groundwater, waste and pollution, and the enormous and increasingly dire effects of manmade climate change.

Instead, China s reserves mostly underwrite America s debt.

The problem is not a lack of reserves, but Gazprom s investment strategy.

Could something similar be in store for today s holders of large reserves?

But, while the buildup of reserves currently around 7.6 trillion in emerging and developing economies protected them, money going into reserves was money not spent.

The reserves of Jana Arkalyk deposit are estimated at 6 million tons of lead.

In a relatively short period during the 1970s and 80s, we discovered the depletion of the world s stratospheric ozone layer, then fixed it.

Now there will be no more freebies for citizens of the country with the world's fourth biggest gas reserves, behind only Qatar in reserves per capita.

Instead, these policies have left hundreds of millions of people even more desperately poor and hungry, and even more vulnerable to drought, pests, and soil depletion.

The IMF also has the unique advantage of being the only depositary of international reserves.

It was based on a sort of victory fever and an underestimation of Soviet reserves.

But almost all of the reserves sit idle on commercial banks balance sheets.

Dependency on coffee or cocoa exports requires a build up of precautionary reserves.

For Global Growth and Stability, Mobilize the Reserves

Foreign exchange reserves are an immense 1.9 trillion.

Yes, China does pile up reserves in dollars.

Money put into reserves is income not spent.

We'll have to fall back on our reserves.

In the first four months of this year, China added 44.3 billion of US Treasury securities to its reserves, meaning that such debt now accounts for 38 of China s total foreign exchange reserves.

Hydrography Quebec has one of the world's largest reserves of fresh water, occupying 12 of its surface.

At the war s end, they thought of a new way of using their reserves spend them.

The current level of proven coal reserves worldwide stands at roughly 850 billion tons.