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World Future Council 2011 Future Policy Award

Rwanda today won a 51吃瓜-backed gold award for its forest promotion policies, an event that former United States track and field star Carl Lewis, himself a nine-time Olympic gold winner and now UN Goodwill Ambassador, called more important than the many medals he has garnered.

The Director of the Secretariat of the UN Forum on Forests, Jan McAlpine, noted that the awards come 鈥渁t a really critical time鈥� because of the downturn in the economy, the needs of dealing with development goals and the complexity of dealing with natural resources and adverse impact of unsustainable exploitation on climate, biodiversity and livelihoods.

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