Safeguarding Earth Crucial to Development, Human Well-Being, Secretary-General Ban Stresses

NEW YORK–(ENEWSPF)–22 April 2010 – Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon today stressed the need to respect and care for the Earth, noting that safeguarding the environment will impact efforts to achieve development goals and ensuring the health and well-being of its inhabitants.

Environmental sustainability – the wise management of the Earth’s bounty – is one of eight Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) that world leaders have pledged to try to achieve by 2015, along with other ambitious targets…