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Healthy people in a healthy environment
Good health and well-being require a clean and harmonious environment where physical, psycho - logical, social and aesthetic factors are all given their due importance. These factors are affected by actions and choices which can secure considerable health benefits. The environment is thus not only important for its own sake, but as a resource for better living conditions and well-being.- What we’ve agreed: the Convention on the Rights of the Child and the Millennium Development Goals
- Green savings
- What young people want
- Water – the key to life
- The air we breathe
- Safer, quieter towns and cities of the future – reclaiming the streets
- Active, healthy lifestyles
- Making energy sustainable
- On the safe side
- Listen to our voices – the Bandung Declaration
Have your say!
World Environment Day 2011 Archive
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Fred Pearce, environmental author and journalist
Posted on June 3, 2011 | No Comments“Have faith in the future. Don’t give in to the pessimism of the old. In recent decades humans have been on a binge, having the mother of all parties. The planet is a wreck. My...
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Patricia Okoed Bukumunhe, UNEP’s Young Environmental Journalist 2011, Capital Radio, Kampala, Uganda
Posted on June 3, 2011 | 3 Comments“Saving our planet should become more than just a conscious decision but an innate pattern of our lives. World Environment Day should be a time to reflect on what we... -
Penelope Jagessar Chaffer, producer-director of Toxic Baby
Posted on June 3, 2011 | No Comments“Destroying the world’s forests is not only toxic to our planet, it’s toxic to our wildlife and to us humans. It sucks that 36 million acres of natural forest are... -
Kumi Naidoo, Greenpeace International Director
Posted on June 3, 2011 | No Comments“Climate change is the greatest threat of our lifetimes. The United States administration sees it as a grave threat to global peace, scientists fear its effects on global health and... -
David de Rothschild, adventurer, environmentalist and UNEP Climate Hero
Posted on June 3, 2011 | 1 Comment“Nature has been doing what she does, with gradual fluxes along the way, for billions of years—slowly flowing, cycling, teeming, coursing over the Earth, adding color, detail, fringes, feathers, spilling blood,... -
Janez Potočnik, European Commissioner for the Environment
Posted on June 3, 2011 | No Comments“It's World Environment Day. Take a look around. Do you like what you see? Do you think we care enough for our world, and for the different types of life... -
Chris Huhne, Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change, UK
Posted on June 3, 2011 | No Comments“In May this year the UK made a legal commitment to cut emissions by over 50 per cent by 2027 on a 1990 basis. We are proud of this ambitious... -
Jim Leape, Director General, WWF International
Posted on June 3, 2011 | No Comments“To preserve our world of infinite beauty but finite bounty, we have to lighten our footprint on the planet, find ways of using its limited resources sustainably and sharing them... -
Severn Suzuki, activist, scientist and speaker
Posted on June 3, 2011 | 2 Comments“My wish for 2011 is that we follow the rise of social revolutions on this planet that we are seeing today and demand more hope for the future, demand a... -
Marijn Dekkers, CEO Bayer AG
Posted on June 3, 2011 | No Comments“In a global partnership, Bayer and UNEP encourage young people to care for the environment. Thousands get involved year after year and many of them demonstrate real environmental leadership by...
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