Business Is Recognizing The Role It Can

The World's Forests Need To Be Seen For What They Are - Giant Global Utilities, Providing Essential Public Services To Humanity On A Vast Scale. They Store Carbon, Which Is Lost To The Atmosphere When They Burn, Increasing Global Warming. The Life They Support Cleans The Atmosphere Of Pollutants And Feeds It With Moisture. They Act As A Natural Thermostat, Helping To Regulate Our Climate And Sustain The Lives Of 1.4 Billion Of The Poorest People On This Earth.

We Don't, In A Sensible World, Want To Hand On An Increasingly Dysfunctional World To Our Grandchildren.

The Simple Fact Is That The World Is Not Paying For The Services The Forests Provide. At The Moment, They Are Worth More Dead Than Alive-for Soya, For Beef, For Palm Oil And For Logging, Feeding The Demand From Other Countries. ... I Think We Need To Be Clear That The Drivers Of Rainforest Destruction Do Not Originate In The Rainforest Nations, But In The More Developed Countries Which, Unwittingly Or Not, Have Caused Climate Change.

Be Neither Too Remote Nor Too Familiar.

Some Recent Occurrences Such As The Bse Disaster And Even Perhaps - Dare I Mention It - The Present Severe Weather Conditions In Our Country Are, I Have No Doubt, The Consequences Of Mankind's Arrogant Disregard Of The Delicate Balance Of Nature. We Have To Find A Way Of Ensuring That Our Remarkable And Seemingly Beneficial Advances In Technology Do Not Just Become The Agents Of Our Own Destruction.