Klaus Toepfer
Klaus Toepfer
Klaus Töpferis a German politicianand environmental politics expert. From 1998 to 2006 he was executive director of the United Nations Environment Programme...
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This is a real environmental and health achievement.
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This is a real environmental and health achievement and I pay tribute to all those governments, companies and others such as the World Bank who kept this promise.
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A renaissance in environmental politics and policy does not come in a vacuum. It needs the long-term commitment and vision of men and women. It needs people who have been and continue to be Champions of the Earth.
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In terms of the environment, the two organizing committees are taking forward a green torch first lit at Lillehammer, Norway in 1994,
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Sustainable construction is one way to show social responsibility to a world now threatened with environmental disaster, especially from global warming. We have to do everything in our means to ease this crisis at every level, beginning in your home and your company.
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One area that the IOC might wish review is the issue of recycling of sporting infrastructure. Take bobsleigh for example. TOROC did a great job to try and mitigate its environmental impact. But the fact remains that constructing, operating and maintaining what is effectively a huge fridge in the mountains raises many fundamental questions of sustainability.
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The environment . . . is not a luxury good, only affordable when all other problems have been solved.
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On this special United Nations Day, let us take those adequate steps to stop the careless exploitation and destruction of the environment by making the necessary changes in our own lives, in our own attitudes, and in our own behavior. We don't have another thousand years,
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The evidence of their rapid revival is a positive signal, not only for the environment and the local communities who live there, but must be seen as a contribution to wider peace and security for the Iraqi people.
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The near-total destruction of the Iraqi marshlands under the regime of Saddam Hussein was a major ecological and human disaster, robbing the Marsh Arabs of a centuries-old culture and way of life as well as food in the form of fish and that most crucial of natural resources, drinking water,
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The near total destruction of the Iraqi marshlands was a major ecological and human disaster, robbing the Marsh Arabs of a centuries-old culture and way of life,
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It is a moral issue of the highest importance. By conserving the habitats of the great apes, we are helping to overcome poverty and to conserve the natural wealth upon which current and future human generations depend. It seems a small price to pay.
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Not only is the toll a human tragedy, but it means these people are less able to carry on productive lives, and this undermines social and economic development.
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The findings in this atlas are speaking a very clear language,