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"Mr President, ladies and gentlemen, Mr Kofi Annan stated that environmental damage, water shortages and the effects of climate change were now killing more people than terrorist attacks. The UN’s proposed environmental reforms, although given a mention, are not yet equal to the challenges facing the planet, despite the fact that the UN has a responsibility to organise the resources to combat predicted disasters, which will turn millions of people into ecological refugees.
Who will provide a home for those dispossessed nations whose land has been swallowed up by the sea? What authority will defend nature in the commercial decision-making of the WTO, a body which has already shown that it gives scant consideration to environmental damage?
Because the environment is not a commodity, because environmental standards must take preference over trade, because legal relationships must be clarified when settling conflicts between the WTO and multilateral agreements on the environment within the United Nations system itself, the UN environmental programme must be transformed into a global environmental organisation, in order to protect our shared public asset, the earth. With international institutional recognition, no one will again be able to evade his responsibility to the planet and to future generations."@en1
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