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UNEP: Environment will "continue to decline" unless we "work with nature"
20.05.2016 08:02 "Agro Perspectiva" (Kyiv) —
As of this week, the UN Agency dealing with the environmental protection, the UN Environment Programme (UNEP), has published the report titled the Global Environmental Outlook: Regional Assessments, UN Radio says.
While speaking following the publication of the Outlook, the UNEP Executive Director Achim Steiner said
the world environment will «continue to decline» unless governments worldwide act and begin to «work with nature».
As to him, the Outlook is the Agency’s most authoritative study ever. The Outlook includes works of more than 1200 scientists, from hundreds of scientific institutions and more than 160 governments.
The ground-breaking study brings together six different reports which provide a detailed picture of the environmental challenges facing each of the world’s six regions.
That is, Africa, the pan-European region, North America, Asia and the Pacific, West Asia, Latin America and the Caribbean.
The broad conclusions indicate that the pace of environmental change sweeping the world is faster than previously thought, making it imperative, the report says, that «governments act now, to reverse the damage being done.»
It is to be admitted, published ahead of the UN Environment Assembly (to be held next week), the study finds that shared threats are rapidly intensifying.
«If current trends continue and the world fails to enact solutions» said Mr. Steiner, «then the state of the world’s environment will continue to decline».
He added that there was still time to tackle and reverse many of the worst impacts.
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