The following quotes were published on the official COP20 website as “most inspiring quotes” from GLF 2014.
1. Victoria Tauli-Corpuz, UN Special Rapporteur on the rights of indigenous peoples:
“Without support for the indigenous people, we will not be able to achieve a landscape approach.”
2. Eduardo Rojas Briales, Assistant Director General, FAO:
“By joining our efforts our messages will reach much further.”
3. Rachel Kyte, Vice President, Climate Change Group, World Bank:
“Without the landscape approach we are not going to achieve what the IPCC has set as a goal.”
4. Daniel Nepstad, Executive Director, Earth Innovation Institute:
“The big winning solution against climate change is going to come from the land. But at the same time we are looking to produce more.”
5. Fabiola Muñoz Dodero, Executive Director, Peruvian National Forest and Wildlife Service:
“The sense of urgency we must have is essential. We no longer have time for trials.”
6. Andrew Steer, President and CEO, World Resource Institute:
“This forum embodies a shift in the understanding of agriculture, through this integrated approach.”
7. Paul Polman, CEO, Unilever:
“The private sector is moving towards sustainability. The majority of CEOs already know that their companies cannot advance in a world affected by climate change. Even the financial sector has responded by using its influence to build environmentally responsible investment.”
8. Helen Clark, UNDP Administrator:
“Next year, we will start a new set of development goals that include environmental objectives. We have advanced, meeting many of the Millennium Development Goals. For example: 15% of the territory and 10% of the oceans globally are protected areas. The use of products that affect the ozone layer has been reduced by 98%.”
9. Yolanda Kakabadse Navarro, President, WWF International:
“It is at the landscape level where theory becomes practice. The New York Declaration on forests… demonstrates that the integrated approach is possible”.
10. Cándido Mezúa Salazar, Chairman, National Coordinating body of indigenous peoples of Panama:
“We are all fully responsible. Each of us has something to contribute, but we don’t do anything.”
