Klaus Topfer Quotes

• Los arrecifes de coral están en peligro. Las actividades humanas los degradan rápidamente. Están sobreexplotados, bombardeados y envenenados. Los asfixian los sedimentos y las algas que crecen en las aguas residuales ricas en nutrientes y los vertidos de fertilizantes. El turismo irresponsable los daña y el calentamiento de los océanos los somete a graves presiones. Cada una de estas presiones ya es mala de por sí, pero juntas, el cóctel está resultando letal.

  Klaus Topfer

  Running, Ocean, Animal

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• It is important to recognize that behind the razzmatazz of consumerism, we all remain dependent on basic natural resources - land, air, water and biodiversity - for every product and service. There can be no free lunch on the environment.

  Klaus Topfer

  Air, Land, Lunch

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• It's difficult to protect something if it doesn't have a price.

  Klaus Topfer

  Difficult, Protect, Ifs

  Fuente: www.spiegel.de

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• Soy un gran partidario de la biónica y esta diversidad de la naturaleza, esta diversidad genética, no está disponible gratuitamente. Nosotros, como naciones industrializadas, ya hemos pecado bastante y hemos reducido considerablemente la biodiversidad en nuestros países. Pero ahora esperamos que los países pobres y menos desarrollados del mundo preserven gratuitamente para nosotros sus selvas tropicales, sus manglares y sus paisajes coralinos.

  Klaus Topfer

  Country, Countries Of The World, Diversity

  Fuente: www.spiegel.de

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• The gains made by better management and technology are still being outpaced by the environmental impacts of population and economic growth. We are on an unsustainable course.

  Klaus Topfer

  Technology, Impact, Growth

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• The IPCC (Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, a group of more than 2,500 scientists) has provided the world community with first class assessments of the soaring temperatures the world is facing, the devastating impacts of these rises and the ways in which we can try and avoid the worst effects of global warming. We now know climate change is real and the hand of humankind in this warming is becoming clearer and clearer.

  Klaus Topfer

  Real, Impact, Assessment

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• That's precisely the reason we need less paper and more concrete political decisions - the protection of endangeres species is not some luxury item by Gucci or Hermès, for people who have no problems.

  Klaus Topfer

  Luxury, People, Decision

  Fuente: www.spiegel.de

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• Protecting biodiversity is just as important and critical to the survival of mankind as stabilizing the climate. Species protection and climate are interdependent.

  Klaus Topfer

  Survival, Important, Climate

  Fuente: www.spiegel.de

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• Most of all, Creation must be protected for its own sake, even if we currently assign no value or an incorrect value to it.

  Klaus Topfer

  Sake, Creation, Protected

  Fuente: www.spiegel.de

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• We must convince and empower people to adopt the conservation and sustainable use of biodiversity as their guiding principle.

  Klaus Topfer

  Guiding Principles, People, Empowering

  "Governments sound biodiversity alarm in Nairobi". www.cnn.com. May 22, 2000.

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• We have a duty to rescue our closest living relatives as part of our wider responsibilities to conserve the ecosystems they inhabit.

  Klaus Topfer

  Responsibility, Ecosystems, Rescue

  "Scientists find missing links in chimp genome" by Tim Radford, www.theguardian.com. September 1, 2005.

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