Date published: 2005/08/31
The BBC says:
The key Millennium Goal of halving poverty in a decade cannot be met without better environmental protection, according to a new report.
The World Resources 2005 document says that most of the world's poor depend on nature for their income.
Its authors say a focus on aid has taken attention away from more complex issues such as the environment.
The report is endorsed by the UN, and comes two weeks before a major summit to review progress on the Goals.
World Resources is a biennial publication from the US-based research group the World Resources Institute (WRI).
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"We have the Millennium Goals summit coming up, we have Tony Blair making Africa and poverty a major theme within the G8 - there's never been a time when poverty has been higher on the agenda," the WRI's President Jonathan Lash told the BBC News website."But if we don't make the key linkages between poverty, the environment and good governance, it will be impossible to achieve the poverty target.
"Seventy-five percent of the world's poor are rural poor, who depend directly on natural systems for their livelihood."
Let's see. A report produced by a typical so-called environmental organisation says that the environment is important. What a shock. And why is the environment more "complex" as an issue than aid, or trade, or anything else in the world? All rather patronising stuff.
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