This threatens not only attempts to eradicate poverty and deforestation but also efforts to combat climate change.
ACHIM STEINEREven 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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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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If you take the hard numbers, then science is clearly telling us that we’re running out of time.
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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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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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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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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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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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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 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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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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Our vision of a sustainable future will only materialize through action taken today.
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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 report makes it clear that climate policy is preventative security policy.
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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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