{"id":410,"date":"2011-03-02T12:12:30","date_gmt":"2011-03-02T12:12:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/earthsummit2012.stakeholderforum.org\/2011\/03\/02\/german-ieg-unep-speech\/"},"modified":"2011-03-02T12:12:30","modified_gmt":"2011-03-02T12:12:30","slug":"german-ieg-unep-speech","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/earthsummit2012.stakeholderforum.org\/index.php\/german-ieg-unep-speech\/","title":{"rendered":"German Federal Minister for the Environment\u2019s Keynote Speech on IEG"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Norbert R\u00f6ttgen, German Federal Minister for the Environment, delivered a keynote speech on International Environmental Governance (IEG) at the UNEP Governing Council \/ Global Ministerial Environment Forum in Nairobi, on 23<sup>rd<\/sup> February 2011.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" alignleft size-full wp-image-409\" style=\"float: left; margin: 10px;\" alt=\"unepguy\" height=\"126\" width=\"191\" src=\"https:\/\/earthsummit2012.stakeholderforum.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/unepguy.jpg\" \/>The speech emphasised the urgent need to move beyond \u2018business as usual\u2019 and ensure that development is no longer primarily based on resource consumption.<\/p>\n<p>For this to be achieved, R\u00f6ttgen called for \u2018fundamental reform of the UN&#8217;s institutional structures\u2019, insisting on the need for the United Nations Environment Organisation to acquire equivalent status to the likes of the World Health Organisation, if it is to successfully oversee the global transition to a green economy.<\/p>\n<p>Click <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.bmu.de\/english\/speeches\/doc\/47044.php\" rel=\"noopener\">here<\/a> to read the full speech.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Norbert R\u00f6ttgen, German Federal Minister for the Environment, delivered a keynote speech on International Environmental Governance (IEG) at the UNEP Governing Council \/ Global Ministerial Environment Forum in Nairobi, on 23rd February 2011.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":409,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-410","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/earthsummit2012.stakeholderforum.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/unepguy.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/earthsummit2012.stakeholderforum.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/410","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/earthsummit2012.stakeholderforum.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/earthsummit2012.stakeholderforum.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/earthsummit2012.stakeholderforum.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/earthsummit2012.stakeholderforum.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=410"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/earthsummit2012.stakeholderforum.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/410\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/earthsummit2012.stakeholderforum.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/409"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/earthsummit2012.stakeholderforum.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=410"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/earthsummit2012.stakeholderforum.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=410"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/earthsummit2012.stakeholderforum.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=410"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}