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.
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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.
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Human beings have fabricated the illusion that in the 21st century they have the technological prowess to be independent of nature.
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The report makes it clear that climate policy is preventative security policy.
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Real results will emerge when we realize the power of combined individual actions and voices to effect change.
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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.
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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.
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We are at a pivotal moment in our shared history. The global goals of a healthy planet, social equality, and economic opportunity for all are within reach. But we cannot prevaricate.
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This threatens not only attempts to eradicate poverty and deforestation but also efforts to combat climate change.
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The way humanity manages or mismanages its nature-based assets, including pollinators, will in part define our collective future in the 21st century.
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Our vision of a sustainable future will only materialize through action taken today.
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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.
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