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7 'Champions for Nature' tell us their must-read books

03 Mar 2021
Kimberly Nicole Pope
Project and Community Lead, Nature Action Agenda, World Economic Forum
For World Wildlife Day, we asked seven Champions of Nature their picks for books that motivate them.
The answers include
A Stone Sat Still by Brendan Wenzel.
During this year’s Davos Agenda Week, leaders from the private and public sectors highlighted the urgent need to halt and reverse nature loss. Deliberate action on the interlinked climate and ecological crises to achieve a net-zero, nature-positive economy is paramount. At the same time, these leaders also presented a message of hope: that investing in nature holds the key to ensuring economic and social prosperity and resilience. ....

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The past, present, and possible future of the United Nations Environmental Program

Credit: The MIT Press
The United Nations Environmental Programme (UNEP) was founded in 1972 as a nimble, fast, and flexible entity at the core of the UN system a subsidiary body rather than a specialized agency. It was intended to be the world s environmental conscience, an anchor institution that established norms and researched policy, leaving it to other organizations to carry out its recommendations. In The Untold Story of the World s Leading Environmental Institution: UNEP at Fifty , author Maria Ivanova offers a detailed account of UNEP s origin and history and a vision for its future. Ivanova counters the common criticism that UNEP was deficient by design, arguing that UNEP has in fact delivered on much (though not all) of its mandate. ....

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