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Achim Steiner
Information about this person was last updated on Thursday, January 26, 2012.
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[ said]: In the run-up to Rio+20, this report shows that a shift to a green economy can, if comprehensively implemented, unlock the potential of marine ecosystems to fuel economic growth – particularly in small island developing States but in ways that ensure that future generations derive an equitable share of marine resources and services,
un 25-JAN-12
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[ said]: has been steadily built over more than a decade, and this study provides further focused and compelling analysis of the likely benefits at the national and regional level,
ibtimes 16-JAN-12
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[-said]: The project is also linking to satellites with the aim of measuring how more efficient stoves are simultaneously improving public health while providing climate benefits in the atmosphere,
scidev 19-DEC-11
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[ said]: Eye on Earth has spotlighted the issues but also the opportunities for accelerating and scaling up more intelligent management and access to the wealth of environmental data being generated across the globe,
ameinfo 17-DEC-11
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[ said]: Countries ranging from Indonesia to Brazil and the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) are recognizing that REDD investments can offer myriad opportunities to boost green development in the 21st century through optimizing and enhancing ecosystem services, tackling climate change, improving water security or promoting green jobs,
irishsun 14-DEC-11
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[ said]: Results of Durban are an important step forward in actions regarding global climate change. They reflect the growing determination of countries to act collectively,
uzreport 13-DEC-11
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[ said]: The big question many will ask is how this will translate into actual emission reductions and by when? Whatever answer will emerge in the coming months, Durban has kept the door open for the world to respond to climate change based on science and common sense rather than political expediency,
reliefWeb 12-DEC-11
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[ said]: The movements forward on the Cancun agreements in respect to adaptation and climate technology institutions are welcome, as is the operationalization of the Green Climate Fund. But the core question of whether more than 190 nations can cooperate in order to peak and bring down emissions to the necessary level by 2020 remains open—it is a high risk strategy for the planet and its people,
reliefweb 11-DEC-11
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[ said]: The Government of South Africa and the Executive Secretary of the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change should be congratulated for what has been achieved, given the low expectations in the months and weeks before Durban,
reliefweb 11-DEC-11
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[ said]: We are in desperate need of a more effective system for international environmental governance,
japantoday 09-DEC-11
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[-said]: We need a new indicator of wealth. GDP growth is too crude, even misleading,
thetimes 08-DEC-11
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[-said]: , offering not only emissions savings but also cost savings to a company or a household budget,
allafrica 08-DEC-11
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[ said]: Countries ranging from Indonesia to Brazil and the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) are recognizing that REDD+ investments can offer myriad opportunities to boost green development in the 21st century – through optimizing and enhancing ecosystem services, tackling climate change, improving water security or promoting green jobs,
un 08-DEC-11
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[ said]: We are in desperate need of a more effective system for international envirornmental governance,
thetimes 08-DEC-11
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[ said]: People are advocating experimenting with our planet with very inadequate knowledge,
thetimes 08-DEC-11
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[-said]: Rio+20 is about the future of our economies, but not in the narrow sense,
thetimes 08-DEC-11
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[ said]: Climate change is defined by science and scientific realities, not by politics, political expediency and political impacts,
mg 07-DEC-11
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[-said]: Fast tracking more energy-efficient lighting is without a doubt one of the low hanging fruit offering not only emissions savings but cost savings to a company or a household budget,
7thspace 07-DEC-11
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[-said]: The Kyoto principles should not be lost, whether you call it a second commitment period, an extension or whatever is agreed, as long as it keeps the Kyoto Protocol alive, it would be good,
chinadaily 07-DEC-11
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[ said]: Even though the United States is not willing to join, even though Japan, Russia and Canada are not willing to join, we do see leadership to try to maintain the validity of international action,
chinadaily 07-DEC-11
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[ said]: is not a contested issue Having all countries coming to a legally binding agreement does not contradict the principle,
chinadaily 07-DEC-11
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[ said]: If a global temperature rise is to be kept under 2 degrees C, we need to act on multiple fronts, including voluntary and legally binding actions. Fast tracking more energy-efficient lighting is without doubt one of the low hanging fruit offering not only emissions saving but cost savings to a company or a household's budget. This UNEP/GEF Global Partnership is switching off old bulbs and switching on a path to a more low-carbon, resource-efficient Green Economy. The aim of achieving a global phase-out by 20
allafrica 07-DEC-11
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[-said]: We are not moving fast enough,
news 06-DEC-11
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[ said]: Just because a few countries are not able to agree, does not mean most don't ...In a sense we are trying to construct an unprecedented thing. More than 190 countries must agree (by international treaty) ...to fundamentally change their economies,
businessday 06-DEC-11
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[ said]: Her research underlines how working with, rather than against, nature can provide humanity with many of the solutions to the challenges countries and communities face,
bbc 28-NOV-11
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[ said]: This report puts into the hands of governments and policymakers vital information about their options if the world is to meet the climate change challenge,
reliefweb 28-NOV-11
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[ said]: For some countries, the most important benefits result from cost-effective improvements in air pollution and reduced illness and loss of life,
xinhuanet_en 25-NOV-11
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[-said]: without any significant technical or financial breakthroughs needed
smh 24-NOV-11
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[ said]: This report puts into the hands of governments and policy-makers vital information about their options if the world is to meet the climate change challenge,
un 23-NOV-11
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[ said]: There is abundant evidence that emissions reductions of between 14 to 20 billion tonnes ... are possible by 2020 and without any significant technical or financials breakthroughs,
alertnet 23-NOV-11
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[ said]: The world is going to pay a terrible price for this standoff, and Africa in particular,
businessday 22-NOV-11
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[ said]: The spectre of having millions of people being food refugees at the moment is one that simply should not happen,
alertnet 21-NOV-11
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[-told]: On the African continent, there is sometimes more leadership being shown by countries, by governments, than we see in some of the industrialised nations,
alertnet 21-NOV-11
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[ said]: The consequence of global warming for Africa is one of disruption, of greater vulnerability, higher risks and enormous expenditures to cope with these changes,
alertnet 21-NOV-11
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[ said]: The world is going to pay a terrible price for this standoff and Africa in particular,
alertnet 21-NOV-11
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[ said]: The world is facing a situation where the only protocol that it has been able to put in place to address climate change is on the verge of actually being abandoned in Durban and that is a very serious situation,
alertnet 21-NOV-11
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[ said]: The specter of having millions of people being food refugees at the moment is one that simply should not happen,
scientificamerican 21-NOV-11
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[-told]: On the African continent, there is sometimes more leadership being shown by countries, by governments, than we see in some of the industrialized nations,
scientificamerican 21-NOV-11
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[ said]: The more than 20 year-old international effort to save the ozone layer ranks among the most successful examples of cooperation and collaboration among nations – the original chemicals, known as CFCs [chlorofluorocarbons], were phased out globally in 2010 and countries are freezing [the use of] and then phasing out the replacements, HCFCs,
un 21-NOV-11
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[ said]: Cooperative action between these treaties may be the key to fast action on HFCs – assisting to maintain momentum on recovering the ozone layer while simultaneously reducing risks of accelerated climate change,
un 21-NOV-11
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[ said]: Two years ago, Palau became the first country to declare its coastal waters a shark sanctuary –scientists now estimate that shark diving tours are generating around eight per cent of the country’s gross domestic product (GDP) and that a single shark generates revenues from ecotourism amounting to 1.9 million over its lifetime,
un 21-NOV-11
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[ said]: Cooperative action between these treaties may be the key to fast action on HFCs, assisting to maintain momentum on recovering the ozone layer while simultaneously reducing risks of accelerated climate change,
allafrica 21-NOV-11
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[ said]: We see across the continent both a realisation of how threatening climate change really is and also the inevitable necessity that governments have an interest in beginning to put their own development priorities on a different trajectory,
alertnet 21-NOV-11
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[ said]: Two years ago, Palau became the first country to declare its coastal waters a shark sanctuary-scientists now estimate that shark diving tours are generating around eight per cent of the country's GDP and that a single shark generates revenues from ecotourism amounting to 1.9 million over its lifetime
allafrica 21-NOV-11
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[ said]: The Durban climate convention meeting in a few week's time and Rio+20 next year are key opportunities to accelerate and scale-up the Green Economy. Central cooperative actions range from advancing Reduced Emissions from Deforestation and Forest Degradation (REDD+), moving on green procurement to switch national efforts into the sustainability space up to a new indicator of wealth that goes beyond GDP and internalizes the costs of pollution and degradation while bringing the true value of the planet's nature
allafrica 18-NOV-11
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[ said]: that, if maintained, may bring others along over the coming months and years,
allafrica 18-NOV-11
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[ says]: They are paying a price first of all individually by premature deaths,
cnn 18-NOV-11
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[ said]: Rwanda provides an exceptional case of a country’s willpower to overcome a traumatic conflict legacy, restore degraded ecosystems and lift people out of poverty,
un 17-NOV-11
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[-said]: I'm glad to see the country is shifting from having a problem to having an opportunity,
chinadaily 17-NOV-11
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[-said]: Because, at the end of the day, it is individuals who have to suffer from the bad consequences and the country's health system has to pay,
chinadaily 17-NOV-11
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[ said]: Rwanda provides an exceptional case of a country's willpower to overcome a traumatic conflict legacy, restore degraded ecosystems and lift people out of poverty,
allafrica 17-NOV-11
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[ said]: Rwanda provides an exceptional case of a country's willpower to overcome a traumatic conflict legacy, restore degraded ecosystems and lift people out of poverty and there is growing interest from development partners and other countries in Rwanda's pioneering model,
reliefWeb 16-NOV-11
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[ said]: This project can make significant contributions towards improving post-conflict resource management through sharing lessons learned and best practices,
reliefWeb 15-NOV-11
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[said:]: It is our obligation through this treaty to create the conditions by which the world will rapidly reduce the likelihood of exposure (to mercury) in both a health and environmental context
allafrica 04-NOV-11
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[ added]: The key at the end of 2013 must be that we have a treaty that sets the world on a course where mercury is less likely to affect the lives of people on this planet
allafrica 04-NOV-11
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[-said]: Hundreds of billions of dollars will be triggered or redirected once we have an agreement,
ABCnews 03-NOV-11
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[-told]: Obama has improved humanity's efforts to fight climate change by bringing America back to the table,
ABCnews 03-NOV-11
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[ said]: Rio+20, under the two themes of a Green Economy in the context of sustainable development and poverty eradication and an institutional framework for sustainable development, can with the requisite level of leadership trigger the necessary switches that may ensure that the balance of negative versus positive trends moves from the red into the black and that the Right to Development is enjoyed by the many rather than the few,
trust 03-NOV-11
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[ said]: The analysis provided in this new report offers many options that can happen either in the formal negotiations or as complementary measures elsewhere,
allafrica 24-OCT-11
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[ added]: And Rio+20 in June next year, 20 years after the Earth Summit that established the UN Convention to Combat Desertification alongside the biodiversity and climate change treaties, represents a further opportunity to advance smarter and more intelligent management of drylands under the theme of the Green Economy in the context of sustainable development and poverty eradication,
reliefWeb 21-OCT-11
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[ said]: New and transformational pathways are also emerging from payments for ecosystem services to paying communities under the carbon markets for farming methods, including agroforestry that not only restore degraded land, improve yields but also soak up carbon from the atmosphere. Rio+20 represents an opportunity to accelerate and to scale up these transitions in drylands and beyond,
reliefWeb 21-OCT-11
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[ said]: Drylands have all too often been the poor relations in respect to more high profile ecosystems such as forests and coral reefs. Yet as this report underlines, they play a critical role in the Earth's planetary systems and support the lives and livelihoods of around two billion people,
reliefWeb 21-OCT-11
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[-said]: The world today is markedly different to the world of UNEP's original children's painting competitions-geopolitically and economically with increasing and accelerating challenges linked with to finding decent employment for youth and countering rising environmental degradation,
gmanews 04-OCT-11
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[ said]: A force of nature,
mg 03-OCT-11
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[ said]: She was a force of nature,
allafrica 30-SEP-11
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[ said]: Wangari Maathai was a force of nature. While others deployed their power and life force to damage, degrade and extract short term profit from the environment, she used hers to stand in their way, mobilize communities and to argue for conservation and sustainable development over destruction,
allafrica 28-SEP-11
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[ said]: Wangari Maathai was a force of nature,
IHT 27-SEP-11
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[ said]: From Asia to the Middle East and Europe, and from North America to Latin America and the small island developing States (SIDS), the issue of youth employment is emerging as a challenge to the global economy and to social stability in countries and communities,
un 27-SEP-11
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[ said]: This new report spotlights the challenges but also the opportunities for a transition to a low carbon, far more resource efficient Green Economy not as an alternative to sustainable development but as a means of implementing it,
egovmonitor 23-SEP-11
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[ said]: This new report spotlights the challenges but also the opportunities for a transition to a low carbon, far more resource efficient green economy not as an alternative to sustainable development but as a means of implementing it,
un 19-SEP-11
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[ said]: The UNEP Champions of the Earth are pioneers and leaders in the fields of environmental sustainability with proven track records in advocacy and actions that are catalyzing a transition to a low carbon, more resource efficient future,
allafrica 01-SEP-11
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[-added]: The report shows how accelerated investment in water-dependent ecosystems, water infrastructure and water management, coupled with effective policies, can boost water and food security, improve human health and promote economic growth,
xinhuanet_en 25-AUG-11
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[ said]: Improving access to cleaner drinking water and sanitation services is a cornerstone of a more sustainable, resource-efficient society,
xinhuanet_en 25-AUG-11
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[ said]: The oil industry has been a key sector of the Nigerian economy for over 50 years, but many Nigerians have paid a high price, as this assessment underlines,
wsj 07-AUG-11
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[ said]: It is UNEP’s hope that the findings can break the decades of deadlock in the region and provide the foundation upon which trust can be built and action undertaken to remedy the multiple health and sustainable development issues facing people in Ogoniland. In addition it offers a blueprint for how the oil industryand public regulatory authorities-- might operate more responsibly in Africa and beyond at a time of increasing production and exploration across many parts of the Continent,
newsfromafrica 05-AUG-11
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[said:]: The oil industry has been a key sector of the Nigerian economy for over 50 years, but many Nigerians have paid a high price, as this assessment underlines.
newscientist 05-AUG-11
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[-said]: our capacity to handle these kinds of events is proving a challenge, particularly if they occur simultaneously and start affecting, for instance, global food markets, regional food security issues, displacing people, creating refugees across borders,
javno 22-JUL-11
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[-said]: In bringing forward a response that enhances global security and cooperation on the climate challenge, the world can perhaps also better manage risk from numerous other challenges and in doing so diminish tensions between nations and lay the foundations and possibilities of a more sustainable and equitable peace,
xinhuanet_en 21-JUL-11
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[ said]: are all threats to peace and security,
tribune 21-JUL-11
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[ said]: Our capacity to handle these kinds of events is proving a challenge,
irishsun 21-JUL-11
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[-told]: The world is confronted with a global warming scenario that is already well beyond where we believe we might be able to manage these changes and trends if we will be able to conclude our negotiations,
guardian 21-JUL-11
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[-said]: The science informs us that the quantity and quality of these resources will be at increasing risk from climate change and its impacts and that, without broad and cooperative action, irreversible tipping points could occur with perhaps sudden and abrupt shocks to communities and countries,
xinhuanet_en 21-JUL-11
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[-said]: There can be little doubt today that climate change has potentially far-reaching implications for global stability and security in economic, social and environmental terms which will increasingly transcend the capacity of individual nation states to manage,
xinhuanet_en 21-JUL-11
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[ said]: It is the speed of environmental change, including climate change, that will be increasingly at the heart of our collective concern and response,
un 20-JUL-11
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