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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

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
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
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 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
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
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 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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Author Likelihood Pill Punch Spotlight Tension
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
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
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
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
Our vision of a sustainable future will only materialize through action taken today.
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Materialize Sustainable Taken Today Vision
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
The report makes it clear that climate policy is preventative security policy.
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Clear Climate Make Preventative Report Security

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