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Achim Steiner

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[Wikipedia] Achim Steiner is a Senior Fellow of the Oxford Martin School at the University of Oxford, and Founding Director of the Security Futures Lab. He also serves as Chair of the Hamburg Sustainability Conference. A Brazilian-German National, he completed his two terms as UN Under-Secretary General and Adm

Quotes by Achim Steiner

In our interdependent world, our neighbors are not only on our street, but can be ten thousand miles away on an island…

Islands

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

Hard

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Many of our partners are here and this is where the world's expertise on environment and the wider sustainability agenda often and…

Agendas

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

21st century

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Including the value of natural resources and our social capital in national accounting is a vital step to achieve economic growth that…

Accounting

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Corporation 2020 is an indispensable contribution to the global transformation of finance and corporations as humanity re-integrates centuries of knowledge and continues…

Better future

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We have a responsibility to first understand how climate change impacts all peoples of the world. Then, we must consider the individual…

Action

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Even if we act immediately, the world is doomed to lose many of its animal and plant species and this inturn will…

Ability

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

Action

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The only ones to profit from illegal, unreported and unregulated fishing are the owners of the fishing fleets who remain hidden behind…

Behinds

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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,

21st century

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A recent report by UNEP and Interpol estimated that between 50 to 90 per cent of logging in key tropical countries of…

Amazon

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With Climate Change as a Security Risk, WBGU has compiled a flagship report on an issue that quite rightly is rising rapidly…

21st century

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Real results will emerge when we realize the power of combined individual actions and voices to effect change.

Action

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We are at a pivotal moment in our shared history. The global goals of a healthy planet, social equality, and economic opportunity…

Economic

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