Achim Steiner
Achim Steiner
Achim Steineris an expert in environmental issues and politics. He was Executive Director of the United Nations Environment Programme UNEP from 2006 until June 2016. Before joining UNEP, he was Director General of the International Union for Conservation of Natureand before that Secretary General of the World Commission on Dams. As of September 2016 he will be director of the Oxford Martin School...
agendas world environment
Many of our partners are here and this is where the world's expertise on environment and the wider sustainability agenda often and regularly gathers. Here is where international initiatives frequently start and are nurtured. Geneva is one of the hubs where global programs can be often most effectively managed.
oceans situation
The situation in oceans around the world is deteriorating, and at an escalating pace,
depends either fish full largest level
We now know that 15 of the world's 17 largest fisheries -- where the world depends on its fish -- are either at full exploitation level or in fact, declining.
century developing good land national parks protected
We've had a good century of developing terrestrial protected areas, national parks on land,
bits information
We've got all these bits of information in different institutions,
argument national problem scale trying
The problem is that the argument has not been made on the scale of national economies, and that is what we are trying to do.
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We are talking about a network of marine protected areas that is defined from both an ecological and eco-system perspective as well as from the perspective of the users.
real voice action
Real results will emerge when we realize the power of combined individual actions and voices to effect change.
moving responsibility impact
We have a responsibility to first understand how climate change impacts all peoples of the world. Then, we must consider the individual and collective choices and actions that can move us toward a sustainable future.
country keys effort
A recent report by UNEP and Interpol estimated that between 50 to 90 per cent of logging in key tropical countries of the Amazon basin, Central Africa and South East Asia is being carried out by organized crime. This threatens not only attempts to eradicate poverty and deforestation but also efforts to combat climate change.
sea islands rising
In our interdependent world, our neighbors are not only on our street, but can be ten thousand miles away on an island in rising seas.
flare-up issues political
With Climate Change as a Security Risk, WBGU has compiled a flagship report on an issue that quite rightly is rising rapidly up the international political agenda. The authors pull no punches on the likelihood of increasing tensions and conflicts in a climatically constrained world and spotlight places where possible conflicts may flare up in the 21st century unless climate change is checked. The report makes it clear that climate policy is preventative security policy.
powerful book humanity
Corporation 2020 is an indispensable contribution to the global transformation of finance and corporations as humanity re-integrates centuries of knowledge and continues its inevitable transition from the first Industrial Era... Pavan Sukhdev is a powerful standard-bearer leading us to the cleaner, knowledge-rich Green Economy globally, and this book provides a benchmark and guide to this better future for humanity.
taken vision today
Our vision of a sustainable future will only materialize through action taken today.