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...
areas both defined ecological marine network perspective protected talking
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.
oceans situation
The situation in oceans around the world is deteriorating, and at an escalating pace,
century developing good land national parks protected
We've had a good century of developing terrestrial protected areas, national parks on land,
humanity way century
The way humanity manages or mismanages its nature-based assets, including pollinators, will in part define our collective future in the 21st century,
fishing veils secrecy
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.
moving responsibility impact
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.
independent reality people
Human beings have fabricated the illusion that in the 21st century they have the technological prowess to be independent of nature. Bees underline the reality that we are more, not less, dependent on nature’s services in a world of close to 7 billion people
flare-up issues political
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. 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. The report makes it clear that climate policy is preventative security policy.