Carter Roberts is president and CEO of the World Wildlife Fund in the U.S. Roberts leads WWF’s efforts to save the world’s great ecosystems by linking science, field and policy programs with an aggressive initiative to work with markets and businesses to lighten their impact on the planet through sustainable resource management. https://www.newsdeeply.com/arctic/contributor/carter-roberts/rss en Environment Thu, 10 Dec 2015 00:00:00 +0000 Carter Roberts https://www.newsdeeply.com/arctic/community/2015/12/10/as-the-arctic-goes-so-goes-the-planet https://www.newsdeeply.com/arctic/community/2015/12/10/as-the-arctic-goes-so-goes-the-planet The pressures driving the desire to develop the Arctic are not unfamiliar to us. But we need to ensure that the push to exploit these rich resources does not overrun any efforts being made to conserve them. We need to get it right, writes Carter Roberts.