Klaus Toepfer
Klaus Toepfer
Klaus Töpferis a German politicianand environmental politics expert. From 1998 to 2006 he was executive director of the United Nations Environment Programme...
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One is that if you have no price, no limitation of carbon dioxide, you don't have the demand for those technologies.
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One area that the IOC might wish review is the issue of recycling of sporting infrastructure. Take bobsleigh for example. TOROC did a great job to try and mitigate its environmental impact. But the fact remains that constructing, operating and maintaining what is effectively a huge fridge in the mountains raises many fundamental questions of sustainability.
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more detailed field analysis of soil and water quality is needed to gauge the exact state of rehabilitation.
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I am delighted that we have finally come together to forge a forward-looking road map for closer cooperation.
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I am delighted that governments could agree to this new chemicals initiative, which I sincerely believe will be a step change in the way we use and produce chemicals.
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So it must be a clear signal that, in order to avoid such a disaster, we must deploy technologies and adopt economic measures that are already available and feasible.
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that investigation at these locations wasn't necessary anymore. That is very clearly not correct.
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Americans are not the only victims. The evil hand of terrorists has hit the human race. We are all victims.
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In terms of the environment, the two organizing committees are taking forward a green torch first lit at Lillehammer, Norway in 1994,
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There are also global implications, not least because a pollution parcel like this, which stretches three kilometers high, can travel half way round the globe in a week.
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Without doubt, sports and sports men and women can be a power for good in the world inspiring by example and bringing together communities, nations and cultures in a common understanding of the principles of peace and fair play.
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There are many important messages emerging from this pioneering study. One that rings loud and clear is the economic one - that our collective failure to value the goods and services provided by international waters, and to narrowly price the benefits in terms of the few rather than the many, is impoverishing us all.
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There are encouraging examples of ecosystems being managed for the long-term to create wealth for poor communities, but there is still a huge job to do. Natural resources can be properly used to greatly reduce poverty. The time has come to reverse the course of worsening diseases, depleted natural resources, political instability, inequality, and the social corrosion of angry generations that have no means to rise out of poverty.
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The extraordinary rise in both human populations and consumption levels leaves us no choice but to take innovative and ambitious actions to reverse the widespread destruction of species and ecosystems,