(FILES) Klaus Toepfer, United Nations Environment Programme Executive Director addresses a plenary Benefits beyond Boundaries on the second day of the Fifth World Parks Congress in Durban, South Africa, on September 9, 2003. Klaus Toepfer, who also was Germany's Environment Minister from 1987 bis 1994, has died at the age of 85 on June 8, 2024, a spokesperson of Germany's conservative Christian Democratic Union (CDU) said on June 11, 2024. (Photo by ALEXANDER JOE / AFP)