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This talk by UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan was given on 12 January 2005 during an impromptu discussion with local conservation and development leaders at the Community Vilaj - a dialogue space convened at the Mauritius International Meeting on Small Island Development States. On the occasion of Mr. and Mrs. Annan's visit to the Mauritius International Meeting, the couple spent one and a half hours visiting the Vilaj site meeting with community participants. In this short excerpt from his extended remarks, the Secretary-General responds to questions from an array of community leaders by highlighting the role that community-level action can have in delivering on development goals. He also notes the critical importance of including local perspectives and expertise in development planning.
This keynote address by Alvaro Umaña, Leader of the Environmentally Sustainable Development Group of UNDP, was delivered at celebrations of World Environment Day in Berlin on 5 June 2003. The speech served to highlight a new and dynamic partnership between the Equator Initiative and the German Government, specifically the Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development (BMZ), as well as launch the Call for Nominations for the Equator Prize 2004.
This lecture by Jeffrey Sachs, Director of the Earth Institute at Columbia University and Special Advisor to UN Secretary General Kofi Annan, inaugurated a three-day meeting on "Biodiversity After Johannesburg" held at the Zoological Society of London on 2 March - 4 March, 2003. As Director of the UN Millennium Project, Sachs assessed the major challenges and opportunities facing the world in achieving the UN Millennium Development Goals and looked at the role of the biodiversity community in accelerating progress towards them.
The Rt Hon Clare Short MP, Secretary of State for International Development, United Kingdom, delivered Keynote Address at this workshop which built on the significant momentum generated by the World Summit on Sustainable Development (WSSD) to recognize the importance of biodiversity in sustainable development . The meeting explored how the loss of biodiversity and the disruption of ecosystems affect each of the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) and how the conservation, sustainable use, and sharing of benefits of biodiversity can help to achieve these critical international objectives.
Princess Basma Bint Talal of Jordan, Jordanian Hashemite
Fund for Human Development, highlighted major challenges for the WSSD
in: strengthening linkages between global and local action; ensuring commitment
to sustainable development by all stakeholders; enhancing the understanding
of biodiversity issues and linkages between biological and cultural diversity;
decentralizing resource management; recognizing the ethical dimensions
of sustainable development; and fully addressing poverty and the rights
of marginalized people.
AMERICAN MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY'S ANNUAL ENVIRONMENTAL
LECTURE Thirty years ago, the world community gathered in Stockholm for the first United Nations Conference on the Human Environment. That event was a watershed. It inspired legions of green activists at the grass-roots level. It led to the establishment of environment ministries and agencies in countries that did not already have them. It put the environment on the international agenda. Ten years ago, the international community gathered
again for the Earth Summit in Rio de Janeiro. With the conceptual breakthrough
of sustainable development, the Summit generated both heat and light.
No longer, it was hoped, would environmental protection be regarded as
a luxury or afterthought. Rather, environmental factors would be integrated
with economic and social issues and become a central part of the policy-making
process. Developed countries, which had benefited immensely from a wasteful
and hazardous path of modernization, would help developing countries combat
poverty and avoid that same polluting path. In adopting Agenda 21, a blueprint
for sustainable development, rich and poor seemed to have agreed on common
vision for growth, equity and conservation over the long-term.
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The Secretary-General
The Equator Initiative: Identifying win-win solutions to lift people out of poverty and protect biodiversity
Achieving
the UN Millennium Development Goals: The Role of the International Biodiversity
Community
Biodiversity
After Johannesburg: The Critical Role of Biodiversity & Ecosystem
Services in Achieving the UN Millennium Development Goals March 23, 2003
Communities
Make the Difference 
Listen
to Basma's presentation
