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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.

Achim Steiner

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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Countries Country Effort Estimate Key Tropical
The Red List gives all of us a practical tool for raising awareness of the biodiversity crisis and for forging new partnerships within the international community.
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Awareness Biodiversity Crisis Partnership Practical Red
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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Century Fabricated Independent People Prowess Reality Technological
The only ones to profit from illegal, unreported and unregulated fishing are the owners of the fishing fleets who remain hidden behind veils of corporate secrecy.
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Fishing Fleet Owner Profit Secrecy Unregulated Unreported Veil
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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Capital Century Define Humanity Natural Resource Way
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.
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Change Climate Flare Issues Political Quite Rising Risk Security
The report makes it clear that climate policy is preventative security policy.
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Clear Climate Make Preventative Report Security
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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Agenda Environment Expertise Partner Sustainability World
Including the value of natural resources and our social capital in national accounting is a vital step to achieve economic growth that is equitable and sustainable.
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Accounting Economic Growth National Resource Social Step Vital
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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Economy Equality Global Goal Healthy Opportunity
Bees underline the reality that we are more, not less, dependent on nature’s services in a world of close to seven billion people.
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Clearly Hard Number Running Science Take Telling Time
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.
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Cleaner Globally Knowledge Leading Powerful Standard
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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Agenda Environment Initiative Nurtured Sustainability Wider
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
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Book Contribution Corporation Finance Global Humanity Indispensable Powerful Transformation
If you take the hard numbers, then science is clearly telling us that we’re running out of time.
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Hard Humanity Manage Mismanage Number Pollinator Run Running Time
Our vision of a sustainable future will only materialize through action taken today.
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Materialize Sustainable Taken Today Vision

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