Including the value of natural resources and our social capital in national accounting is a vital step to achieve economic growth that is equitable and sustainable.
"Achim Steiner" is an expert in environmental issues and politics. He is Executive Director of the United Nations Environment Programme UNEP. Before joining UNEP, he was Director General of the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) and before that Secretary General of the World Commission on Dams.
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We are talking about a network of marine protected areas that is defined from both an ecological and eco-system perspective as well as from the perspective of the users.
But in the face of big challenges such as habitat loss, pollution of coastal zones, and species loss, and the high seas collapse of fish stocks, the whole marine realm is becoming rapidly more important.
We've got all these bits of information in different institutions.
We now know that 15 of the world's 17 largest fisheries - where the world depends on its fish - are either at full exploitation level or in fact, declining.
The problem is that the argument has not been made on the scale of national economies, and that is what we are trying to do.
We've had a good century of developing terrestrial protected areas, national parks on land.
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