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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A renaissance in environmental politics and policy does not come in a vacuum. It needs the long-term commitment and vision of men and women. It needs people who have been and continue to be Champions of the Earth.
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You only have to look at the tropical forests, home to the great apes. Economists now calculate that they are worth US$60 billion a year as a result of their ability to remove and store global warming gases from the atmosphere alone,
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This is a real environmental and health achievement and I pay tribute to all those governments, companies and others such as the World Bank who kept this promise.
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This is a real environmental and health achievement.
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This is extremely important for health and the environment.
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Day in and day out and across the oceans and seas of the world nature is working to generate incomes and livelihoods for millions if not billions of people.
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It is clear from this report, and from a series of other studies published throughout the year, that the environment is something like the red ribbon running through the Millennium Development Goals.
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It is a moral issue of the highest importance. By conserving the habitats of the great apes, we are helping to overcome poverty and to conserve the natural wealth upon which current and future human generations depend. It seems a small price to pay.
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I would urge Presidents and Prime Ministers to make this WRI report and the findings of the Millennium Ecosystem Assessment indispensable parts of their reading. I am sure that the conclusions will suggest to them, as they do to me, fresh, imaginative, sensible and truly sustainable approaches to the pressing development issues of the day,
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We must convince and empower people to adopt the conservation and sustainable use of biodiversity as their guiding principle,
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The peoples of the Arctic and the small islands of this world face many of the same threats.
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Sustainable construction is one way to show social responsibility to a world now threatened with environmental disaster, especially from global warming. We have to do everything in our means to ease this crisis at every level, beginning in your home and your company.
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Small cetaceans are amongst the most well loved and charismatic creatures on the planet,
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If nothing happens there's a very great probability the great apes will go out of this world.