OUR PLANET 10.2
June 1999
UNEP - Looking Forward
Editorial
Klaus Toepfer
Executive Director, UNEP
Into the 21st century
Keizo Obuchi welcomes UNEP's reform and says that
its importance will increase as it tackles the issues
A stronger conscience
Michael Meacher welcomes UNEP's increasing recovery
and points to priority areas where its contribution
is crucial
Spirit of optimism
Jürgen Trittin says that UNEP's decline has
been reversed and that he expects it to play a
central role in a strong institutional framework
for environmental protection
Meeting new challenges
Guro Fjellanger says UNEP must create a united and
forceful profile in tackling complex new threats
to health and the environment
Under threat
Ashok Khosla says that governments of industrialized
countries are preventing UNEP from fulfilling
its potential
All change?
Richard Sandbrook examines the hurdles confronting
UNEP at a critical time in its history
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Safety denied
Tewolde Berhan G. Egziabher wonders whether the North
is serious about negotiating a Biosafety Protocol
Elephants, mouse-deer and genetic modification
Gurdial Singh Nijar blames the United States of America,
its allies, and the European Union, for the breakdown
of negotiations on a Biosafety Protocol
A new green revolution
L. Val Giddings says that negotiators must stop exceeding
their mandate if the promise of biotechnology is to be
realized, and biodiversity protected
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Hands on
Robert Lamb laments the disappearance of the environmental
documentary on television, but finds there are new ways of
covering the issues
From hydrocarbons to bits and bytes
Terrell J. Minger and Meredith Miller describe the
telecommunications industry's search for sustainability
FOCUS: Millennial warning
Claude Martin makes a plea for the integration of the
biosphere into the whole of human thought
Keeping the flame
Ian Johnson
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