Speaking after the publication of the report in February 2007, Achim Steiner, head of the U.N.

CNN: Climate change: Time is running out

"The report provides a sobering assessment of the gulf between ambition and reality, " says Achim Steiner, the executive director of Unep.

BBC: UN says carbon cuts too slow to curb dangerous warming

"The way humanity manages or mismanages its nature-based assets, including pollinators, will in part define our collective future in the 21st century, " said United Nations Environment Programme executive director Achim Steiner.

BBC: 'Long-term consequences' of decline in bee population

Achim Steiner, executive director of the United Nations Environment Program, made the call during the opening meeting of the 178-nation Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species, or CITES, in Bangkok.

NPR: UN Calls For Clampdown On Illegal Wildlife Trade

"There is an urgent need to assess the environmental legacy of the recent conflict and put in place a comprehensive clean-up of polluted and health-hazardous sites, " said Achim Steiner, UNEP's Executive Director.

CNN: Lebanon counts the cost of conflict

"Many economies remain blind to the huge value of the diversity of animals, plants and other lifeforms and their role in healthy and functioning ecosystems, " said Achim Steiner, executive director of the UN Environment Programme (Unep).

BBC: Nature loss 'to damage economies'

Achim Steiner, executive director of the U.N.

NPR: Nations Agree To New Chemical Ban, Export Controls

Bae-Yong Lee, Chairman of the Presidential Council on Nation Branding, Gun-Soo Kim, Secretary-General of the Expo Organizing Committee, Achim Steiner, Executive Director of the United Nations Environment Programme, Wendy Watson-Wright, Executive Secretary of UNESCO-IOC, and Taeck-Soo Chun, Secretary-General of the Korean National Commission for UNESCO were present at the opening ceremony.

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