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"Mr President, Commissioner, I share your view that Rio did not go anywhere near as far as we had hoped it would. For me, this is an empty shell. I remember Rio 20 years ago when it inspired all of us to get to grips with the problems at local level. I believe we are back at that stage again. We cannot wait for global leaders to stop listening to businesses and suddenly start to act quickly enough. We can only overcome the challenges that we are facing if we start from the bottom and work upwards – for people in their everyday lives to start to treat our planet and our economy differently.
We have a completely unsustainable economy that is entirely based on non-renewable resources, and a dramatic switch to a green economy will not mean green growth. Green growth is an illusion based on completely unrealistic ideas of the efficient use of resources. It is totally impossible to achieve. We therefore need a different economy that is genuinely green.
We can only achieve this if we monitor different targets. If we only measure economic activity, then that is what we will get. If we monitor other targets, the result will instead be a better planet. Let us go down that route."@en1
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