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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

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
This threatens not only attempts to eradicate poverty and deforestation but also efforts to combat climate change.
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Attempt Change Combal Deforestation Eradicate Threaten
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
Real results will emerge when we realize the power of combined individual actions and voices to effect change.
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Action Change Combined Effect Power Real Voice
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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Climate Impact Moving People Responsibility Understand World
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
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
The report makes it clear that climate policy is preventative security policy.
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Clear Climate Make Preventative Report Security
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
Our vision of a sustainable future will only materialize through action taken today.
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Materialize Sustainable Taken Today Vision
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.
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Interdependent Islands Mile Neighbour Rising Sea Thousand
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
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
Even if we act immediately, the world is doomed to lose many of its animal and plant species and this inturn will reduce the ability of ecosystems to deliver vital services to human populations.
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Animal Doomed Ecosystem Giving Immediately Inturn Plant Species World
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
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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