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Sustainability

July 22, 2008

THE 5-MINUTE INTERVIEW: Achim Steiner, UN Under-Secretary General, and Executive Director UN Environment Programme (UNEP)

Alex Scott

I’d like to see the chemical sector doing more… research and development on nature-based chemistry; the way microbes, fungi, plants and animals have evolved and perfected, over billions of years, super efficient and novel ways of harvesting sunlight up to making substances that appear to avoid antibiotic resistance; in short, the field of biomimicry....

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