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.
ACHIM STEINERWe 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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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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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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This threatens not only attempts to eradicate poverty and deforestation but also efforts to combat climate change.
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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 report makes it clear that climate policy is preventative security policy.
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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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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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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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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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Real results will emerge when we realize the power of combined individual actions and voices to effect change.
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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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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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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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Our vision of a sustainable future will only materialize through action taken today.
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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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