"That's the wonderful thing about Earth Day is that it really provides a platform, an opportunity for grassroots organizations and community organizations to really focus on what's happening in their neighborhoods and their homes in their communities, in their businesses and to focus on the priority problems and to engage people maybe for the first time in taking environmental action."

VOA: special.2010.04.21

Key to driving forward the delivery of MDGs in BiH will be two funding windows, one supporting the implementation of Local Environmental Action Plan priority projects at local level, and a second providing assistance for innovative proposals that link environmental management and poverty reduction, and provide lessons to inform further policy development at national level.

UNESCO: Water

Priority environmental issues were beach erosion and a lack of a garbage collection system and designated area for garbage disposal.

UNESCO: Opinion survey

Ben Thornley: We were surprised to discover that, even within the constraints of fiduciary duty and the strictures of conventional portfolio management, US institutional asset owners have been very creative in finding ways to support regional economies and deliver the other secondary social or environmental impacts of priority to beneficiaries.

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