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 STEINERIncluding 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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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 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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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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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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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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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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If you take the hard numbers, then science is clearly telling us that we’re running out of time.
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The report makes it clear that climate policy is preventative security policy.
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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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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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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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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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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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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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