The UN calls upon the Kenyan government to clarify the circumstances surrounding today's events at the Standard Group, and to take the appropriate action against those responsible, including legal action if necessary. |
There are also global implications, not least because a pollution parcel like this, which stretches three kilometers high, can travel half way round the globe in a week. |
There are encouraging examples of ecosystems being managed for the long-term to create wealth for poor communities, but there is still a huge job to do. Natural resources can be properly used to greatly reduce poverty. The time has come to reverse the course of worsening diseases, depleted natural resources, political instability, inequality, and the social corrosion of angry generations that have no means to rise out of poverty. |
There are many important messages emerging from this pioneering study. One that rings loud and clear is the economic one - that our collective failure to value the goods and services provided by international waters, and to narrowly price the benefits in terms of the few rather than the many, is impoverishing us all. |
There is clear and growing evidence of a link between reverence for the land and a breadth of unique and special plants and animals. Sadly, sacred sites are also under threat, and there is an urgent need to help local, indigenous and traditional peoples safeguard their heritage. This can do much to conserve the biological and genetic diversity upon which we all depend. |
These are ... sites that have a history of contamination, all of which are linked to massive neglect. |
These facts are especially poignant when you factor in the impact of climate change which is triggering more extreme weather events like droughts. |
This is a grim prognosis based on business as usual, |
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. |
This is a real environmental and health achievement. |
This is extremely important for health and the environment. |
Wars, conflicts, instability and the poor environmental management of the previous regime have left their scars on the Iraqi people and the Iraqi environment, |
We are an integral part of the Kenyan community and any calamity that affects a part of it, affects us all. I am pleased to see that we respond not only as an organization, which is our duty, but as individuals as well. |
We are very aware that there are non-technology constraints. |
We have a duty to rescue our closest living relatives as part of our wider responsibilities to conserve the ecosystems they inhabit |