Achim Steiner Quotes (10 Quotes)

But in the face of big challenges such as habitat loss, pollution of coastal zones, and species loss, and the high seas collapse of fish stocks, the whole marine realm is becoming rapidly more important,

The only ones to profit from illegal, unreported and unregulated fishing are the owners of the fishing fleets who remain hidden behind veils of corporate secrecy.

We've got all these bits of information in different institutions,

Including the value of natural resources and our social capital in national accounting is a vital step to achieve economic growth that is equitable and sustainable.

The problem is that the argument has not been made on the scale of national economies, and that is what we are trying to do.

Conservation measures are making a difference.

We now know that 15 of the world's 17 largest fisheries -- where the world depends on its fish -- are either at full exploitation level or in fact, declining.

The situation in oceans around the world is deteriorating, and at an escalating pace,

Given the tiny amount of good quality tropical forest remaining on Mauritius, this development can only be viewed as catastrophic to the native biodiversity.

We've had a good century of developing terrestrial protected areas, national parks on land,