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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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Giselle Bündchen, model and Goodwill Ambassador for the United Nations Environment Programme
Posted on June 3, 2011 | No Comments“World Environment Day is so important! My wish is that we all take a moment to think how each of us is directly connected to our Earth. If we damage the Earth,...
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Irina Bokova, Director-General, UNESCO
Posted on June 3, 2011 | No Comments“Along with ‘green economies,’ we must build ‘green societies’. This means changing the way we think and recognizing what matters. Forests are pillars of life. Hosts to the world’s great biodiversity,... -
Archbishop Desmond Tutu
Posted on June 3, 2011 | No Comments"The Bible tells us that God placed Adam on Earth to till the soil and to tend it. Not abuse it, not to make as much money from it as... -
Achim Steiner, UNEP Executive Director
Posted on June 3, 2011 | No CommentsIndia, with some 150 years of experience in forestry management and extensive and active current initiatives in this sector, is in many ways the ideal global host for WED 2011–12...
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