http://rs.resalliance.org/2005/06/27/ma-desertification-synthesis/ coping with ecological suprise in a human dominated world Thu, 21 Aug 2008 21:39:51 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.5.1 http://rs.resalliance.org/2005/06/27/ma-desertification-synthesis/#comment-78 Resilience Science » WRI 2005: Environment key to helping poor Thu, 01 Sep 2005 04:36:23 +0000 http://blog.resalliance.org/?p=56#comment-78 [...] BBC news has an article on the report Environment key to helping poor which writes: The release of this year’s edition, sub-titled Managing Ecosystems to Fight Poverty, is particularly pertinent, coming as it does in the run-up to the UN World Summit, which will see representatives of more than 190 countries gather in New York to review progress on the Millennium Goals adopted by world leaders five years ago. … Jonathan Lash [WRI’s president] is pessimistic that the link between environmental protection and poverty is understood at the highest level. … “In the Millennium Goals, the environment was treated as an afterthought,” he told the BBC News website. A foreword co-written by senior figures in the World Bank and the United Nations Environment and Development Programmes notes the devastating figures which emerged earlier this year from a four-year study of global environmental decline, the Millennium Ecosystem Assessment (for more on the MA see our previous posts: 1, 2, 3, 4, and 5). [...] [...] BBC news has an article on the report Environment key to helping poor which writes: The release of this year’s edition, sub-titled Managing Ecosystems to Fight Poverty, is particularly pertinent, coming as it does in the run-up to the UN World Summit, which will see representatives of more than 190 countries gather in New York to review progress on the Millennium Goals adopted by world leaders five years ago. … Jonathan Lash [WRI’s president] is pessimistic that the link between environmental protection and poverty is understood at the highest level. … “In the Millennium Goals, the environment was treated as an afterthought,” he told the BBC News website. A foreword co-written by senior figures in the World Bank and the United Nations Environment and Development Programmes notes the devastating figures which emerged earlier this year from a four-year study of global environmental decline, the Millennium Ecosystem Assessment (for more on the MA see our previous posts: 1, 2, 3, 4, and 5). [...]

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