Achim Steiner
Achim Steiner
Achim Steineris an expert in environmental issues and politics. He was Executive Director of the United Nations Environment Programme UNEP from 2006 until June 2016. Before joining UNEP, he was Director General of the International Union for Conservation of Natureand before that Secretary General of the World Commission on Dams. As of September 2016 he will be director of the Oxford Martin School...
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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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Given the tiny amount of good quality tropical forest remaining on Mauritius, this development can only be viewed as catastrophic to the native biodiversity,
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We've had a good century of developing terrestrial protected areas, national parks on land,
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We've got all these bits of information in different institutions,
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The situation in oceans around the world is deteriorating, and at an escalating pace,
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We are talking about a network of marine protected areas that is defined from both an ecological and eco-system perspective as well as from the perspective of the users.
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We now know that 15 of the world's 17 largest fisheries -- where the world depends on its fish -- are either at full exploitation level or in fact, declining.
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But in the face of big challenges such as habitat loss, pollution of coastal zones, and species loss, and the high seas collapse of fish stocks, the whole marine realm is becoming rapidly more important,
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Our vision of a sustainable future will only materialize through action taken today.