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STORY: UNEP / BRAZIL HOST
TRT: 1.41
SOURCE: UNEP
RESTRICTIONS: NONE
LANGUAGE: ENGLISH / NATS
DATELINE: 22 FEBRUARY 2011, UN HQ, NAIROBI, KENYA/ FILE
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2. SOUNDBITE (English) Achim Steiner, Executive Director, United Nations Environmental Program (UNEP):
“Of the many countries of this planet, Brazil stands out as a nation amongst a few others who since 1992 has in fact taken the sustainable development paradigm and the agenda in Agenda 21 in all the three dimensions forward. So as the world returns to celebrating World Environment Day in 2012, Brazil is a very different country economically, socially and also environmentally.”
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4. SOUNDBITE (English) Achim Steiner, Executive Director, United Nations Environmental Program (UNEP):
Now I should mention that one of the things we will do together in Brazil, in the context of the World Environment Day is to release the final and full comprehensive report called the Global Environment Outlook 5 report. And I think it will be a very fitting moment a few days before the world finally meets in Rio to have a very clear look at the state of our planet and the implications for its people, and the solutions that people have developed in responding to these challenges.
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6. SOUNDBITE (English) Izabella Teixeira, Minister of Environment, Brazil:
“We need to be ambitious, the Brazilian government. We want ambitious outcomes from Rio+20 conference. And I'm sure that this partnership with UNEP, showing that it's possible to be ambitious in modern days, it's possible to share that environmental sustainability is a key player for the understanding of sustainable development paradigm and how you can deal with the challenges over the next years.”
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The United Nations (UN) announced today that Brazil will be the host of World Environment Day 2012 on 5 June, which aims to emphasize how individual actions can have an exponential impact on the planet and help reduce pollution.
According to the UN Environmental Program (UNEP), in recent years Brazil has taken significant steps to tackle issues such as deforestation in the Amazon which has led to one of the biggest greenhouse gas emissions in the world, and it is also at the forefront of building an economy that includes recycling and renewable energy and the generation of green jobs, making it a fitting host for WED.
While taking note that among the many countries of the globe, Brazil stood out as a nation amongst a few others who since 1992 had taken the sustainable development paradigm and the agenda in Agenda 21 in all the three dimensions, economic prosperity, environmental quality and social equity.
UNEP Executive Director Achim Steiner said that “as the world returns to celebrating World Environment Day in 2012, Brazil is a very different country economically, socially and also environmentally."
Steiner said that UNEP would release the final report called the Global Environment Outlook 5 report earlier in Brazil, so that when everyone meets in Rio there would be a "very clear" look at the state of the planet and the implications for its people.
Brazil’s Minister of Environment, Izabella Teixeira said that Brazil wants “ambitious outcomes from Rio+20 conference."
World Envronment Day (WED) celebrations in Brazil will be part of thousands of events taking place around the world. Activities will range from marathons, to community clean-ups, car-free days, green blogging competitions, exhibits, green petitions, and nationwide green campaigns, among others.
This year’s theme – Green Economy: Does it include you? – is as an invitation for individuals to assess where the green economy fits in their daily lives and to evaluate how it can deliver economic and environmental outcomes for a sustainable future in a planet of seven billion people.
Brazil had previously hosted WED in 1992, on the eve of the first Earth Summit, when world leaders, government officials and international organizations met to refocus, recalibrate and deliver a route map towards sustainable development.
