Once a wave has been created, it can travel for thousands of miles with little energy loss until its energy dissipates on the shores.

The farther we get from the cell, the energy should dissipate.

The result is exhausted representatives, dissipated energies, dissatisfactory implementation of agreed goals and a disinterested public, with consequent impacts on follow-up.

Given the current budgetary constraints, he feared that active engagement in global forum activities might result in a dissipation of energy and resources.

The idea is that rather than dissipate energy and resources, as has often happened in the past, efforts should be focused on the key constraints in order to optimize the use of scarce resources and make tangible headway.

Funding of various types should be increased to developing countries in their development and implementation of mitigation and adaptation actions, as measures at the international level to address climate change must be made coherent, lest energies be dissipated and resources wasted.

However, from the organizational perspective, the structure of the associative movement is still at a rudimentary stage, and one consequence of this is a dissipation of energies sometimes leading to unproductive misunderstandings.

At the same time that neo-liberals were slashing andburning their way through old social-democratic arrangements, theleft was dissipating its energies on cultural politics, “identity,”and ideological multiculturalism.

The secretariat also raised awareness about the fact that unsustainable management of forests causes serious and adverse long-term consequences, pointing out the importance of mangrove forests for many tropical coastlines and highlighting, in particular, their protective function in helping to dissipate the energy of incoming waves.