“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.”

Our vision of a sustainable future will only materialize through action taken today.

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.

Bees underline the reality that we are more, not less, dependent on nature’s services in a world of close to seven billion people.

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.

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.

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.

If you take the hard numbers, then science is clearly telling us that we’re running out of time.

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.

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.

This threatens not only attempts to eradicate poverty and deforestation but also efforts to combat climate change.

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.

Human beings have fabricated the illusion that in the 21st century they have the technological prowess to be independent of nature.

The way humanity manages or mismanages its nature-based assets, including pollinators, will in part define our collective future in the 21st century.

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

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.

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.

You can’t compare eras. But drivers of each era adapt to the needs and climate of their time. There are good and bad points to every era of the sport. I’m not really nostalgic about the past.

Today’s business climate is not for me.

We have a policy at Greenpeace that we no longer debate people who don’t accept the scientific reality of anthropogenic climate change.

Despite this, funding from rich countries to help the poor and vulnerable adapt to climate change is not even 1 percent of what is needed.

In the current socio-political climate, he said to himself, committing suicide is absurd and redundant. Better to become an undercover poet.

I think we’re in a global crisis of unprecedented scale, with global warming and climate change, and we don’t have the solution using any of the separated structures that are attempting to solve these issues, whether it be the United Nations, or the global corporations.

Climate change…is, simply, the greatest collective challenge we face as a human family.

Let us take advantage of the opportunities presented by climate action and lay the foundations for a more prosperous and secure future for all.