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M2 PRESSWIRE-31 March 2005-UN: UNEP urges better conservation of planet's life-support systems for fighting poverty, delivering growth, meeting Millennium Development Goals
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BEIJING/NAIROBI - The value of the world's forests, wetlands, coral reefs and other ecosystems for fighting poverty and delivering sustainable development is spotlighted today in a new international report.
The Millennium Ecosystem Assessment makes the case that ecosystems and the services they provide are financially significant and that to degrade and damage them is tantamount to economic suicide, said Klaus Toepfer, Executive Director of the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP).
The Assessment, in which UNEP has played a key role, makes it clear that humankind is running down its "natural capital".
It argues that the loss of natural services, such as the purification of the air and water, protection from disasters and provision of medicines, as a result of damaged...
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