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Interview with Foreign Correspondent: What's right about the UN
What's good and bad about the UN.
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Quotes
Selected quotes from litera.co.uk
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The African famine
The people of the Sahel region of Africa are used to devastating periods of famine — and 1984 was a particularly bad year. But even when faced with a true test of human strength, there are moments of optimism.
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Quotes from Maurice Strong
Forty selected quotes.
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The Globe Foundation
"Maurice has been a strong supporter of GLOBE for many years and we have always valued his contribution and admired his commitment to international cooperation," said President and CEO John Wiebe. "Maurice is one of the most influential men in the world...In the past thirty years, no single person has done more for the environment movement."
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Distinguished Canadian Leadership Awards
Remarks on being presented with a Distinguished Canadian Leadership Award by the University of Ottawa.
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Canadian Environmental Advocate
No single international civil servant has contributed more to global attention to environmental problems, including those relating to air and water pollution, than has Maurice F. Strong.
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George W. Bush meet Maurice Strong
Strong gave testimony in front of the U.S. Senate's Environment and Public Works Committee. His words conveyed the frustration that even this former energy company executive feels about the path down which George W. Bush is taking the United States and the rest of the world.
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IPS columnist service
No nation has suffered from societal breakdown, internal conflict and foreign intervention more than China has in the past century.
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Pearson Peace Medal
The UNAC Pearson Peace Medal annually recognized a Canadian who through voluntary or other efforts has personally most contributed to those causes for which Lester Pearson stood: aid to the developing world, mediation between those confronting one another with arms, succour to refugees and others in need, and peaceful change through world law and world organizations.
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An ecological approach to management
Man has the fundamental right to freedom, equality and adequate conditions of life in an environment of a quality that permits a life of dignity and well-being. He bears "a solemn responsibility to protect and improve the environment for present and future generations." And states have "the responsibility to ensure that activities within their jurisdiction or control do not cause damage to the environment of other states or of areas beyond the limits of national jurisdiction."
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Connecting with the world
Within Canada, there are many centres of excellence and expertise in the public sector, private sector, and academic community that act as important components of knowledge-based networks.
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Lessons in success : Maurice Strong on the state of environmentalism
From the website of the Centre for Asia-Pacific Initiatives, located at the University of Victoria in British Columbia, Canada. Raya Yampolsky blogs after hearing Maurice Strong at a TED meeting in Beijing on climate change.
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CLIMATE CHANGE: "Canada Is the Dinosaur"
Canada is the only country to ignore its international obligations under the previous Kyoto climate treaty. It has blocked all attempts to get a new treaty to significantly cut carbon emissions, the activists and delegates in Copenhagen charge.
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Human existence is at real and imminent risk
The current economic and climate change crises are both rooted in the unsustainable nature of the existing economic system. The rapid and unexpected economic meltdown, which began in the United States and quickly spread throughout the world demonstrated dramatically that the phenomenon of globalization and interdependence has a dramatic downside of shared risks and vulnerability, writes Maurice Strong.
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