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Letter "K" » Klaus Toepfer Quotes
«Drought is no stranger to the peoples of East Africa. It is a natural climatic phenomenon. What has dramatically changed in recent decades is the ability of nature to supply essential services like water and moisture during hard times. This is because so much of nature's water and rain-supplying services have been damaged, destroyed or cleared.»
«These facts are especially poignant when you factor in the impact of climate change which is triggering more extreme weather events like droughts.»
«I am delighted that we have finally come together to forge a forward-looking road map for closer cooperation.»
«In terms of the environment, the two organizing committees are taking forward a green torch first lit at Lillehammer, Norway in 1994,»
«We must convince and empower people to adopt the conservation and sustainable use of biodiversity as their guiding principle,»
«The extraordinary rise in both human populations and consumption levels leaves us no choice but to take innovative and ambitious actions to reverse the widespread destruction of species and ecosystems,»
«We have a duty to rescue our closest living relatives as part of our wider responsibilities to conserve the ecosystems they inhabit»
«In the past the environment has been viewed as something like a Hermes silk tie or a Gucci handbag-a luxury only affordable when all other issues have been resolved, but this (WRI) report, allied with a series of other new and authoritative studies released over recent months such as the Millennium Ecosystem Assessment, overturns this myth and underlines in graphic detail the importance of `natures` natural capital alongside financial and human capital,»
«I would urge Presidents and Prime Ministers to make this WRI report and the findings of the Millennium Ecosystem Assessment indispensable parts of their reading. I am sure that the conclusions will suggest to them, as they do to me, fresh, imaginative, sensible and truly sustainable approaches to the pressing development issues of the day,»
«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,»