The new energy future is decentralised, entrepreneurial and needs people like you to say 'Give me a clean car, give me solar… — William J. Clinton Copy Share Image
If you always have consciousness of gender equality at the heart of your policies, then you will have much more democratic, much… — Isabella Lovin Copy Share Image
All our efforts to defeat poverty and pursue sustainable development will be in vain if environmental degradation and natural resource depletion continue… — Kofi Annan Copy Share Image
Preservation of the environment, promotion of sustainable development and particular attention to climate change are matters of grave concern for the entire… — Pope Benedict XVI Copy Share Image
No matter how complex global problems may seem, it is we ourselves who have given rise to them. They cannot be beyond… — Daisaku Ikeda Copy Share Image
The Prime Minister of India, at a meeting that I co-chaired a few months ago, stated that any development that is not… — Maurice Strong Copy Share Image
A world where one tenth of the population gets to be extremely wealthy, and six tenths very poor, is not, in the… — Bill McKibben Copy Share Image
...living more sustainably means living happier, more balanced and potentially more fulfilled lives than most of us 'choose' to live today, whatever… — Jonathon Porritt Copy Share Image
Risk is relative. And relative to the imminent planetary 'game over' neon sign that's starting to flicker above our children's heads, just… — Dave Hampton Copy Share Image
I spend most of my time in South Korea but at least one-third of my time is spent traveling around the world,… — Ban Ki-moon Copy Share Image
We're handing them [young people & future generations] a climate system which is potentially out of their control. We're in an emergency:… — James Hansen Copy Share Image
Changing eating habits in the North is an important link in the chain of events needed to create environmentally sustainable development that… — Walden Bello Copy Share Image
Respect for human rights requires transparent and accountable institutions and governance as well as the effective participation of all individuals and civil… — Alfred-Maurice de Zayas Copy Share Image
My dear friends, God’s creation is one and it is good. The concerns for nonviolence, sustainable development, justice and peace, and care… — Pope Benedict XVI Copy Share Image
We have a situation where we are rich really as a world overall, and yet we have the capacity to destroy ourselves,… — Tony Blair Copy Share Image
The idea of sustainability can imply there is one perfect, unchanging future, if only we could work out how to get there.… — Jamais Cascio Copy Share Image
It is not reasonable that art should win the place of honor over our great and powerful mother Nature. We have so… — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
We live at a time when emotions and feelings count more than truth, and there is a vast ignorance of science — James Lovelock Copy Share Image
If there's reason for hope, it lies in man's occasional binges of cooperation. To save our planet, we'll need that kind of… — George Meyer Copy Share Image
Also, it is interesting that developing countries, with China and India perhaps in the lead, where the future of the global environment… — Maurice Strong Copy Share Image
Our biggest challenge in this new century is to take an idea that seems abstract - sustainable development - and turn it… — Kofi Annan Copy Share Image
The 2013/14 storms & floods show the UK needs to invest in a climate resilient, low carbon, food secure, full employment, positive future — Phil Harding Copy Share Image
Nevertheless, the concept of sustainable development is now known - even amongst those who haven't accepted it - and it's recognized, debated… — Maurice Strong Copy Share Image
The UPA's strategy of 'inclusive growth' remains the foundational pillar of economically, politically, and socially sustainable development. — Sanjaya Baru Copy Share Image
In a climate where people don't understand the numbers, newspapers, campaigners, companies, and politicians can get away with murder — David J. C. MacKay Copy Share Image
You can make a lot of speeches, but the real thing is when you dig a hole, plant a tree, give it… — Wangari Maathai Copy Share Image
Many unsustainable behaviours are locked-in and made 'normal', not just by the way that we produce and consume, but by the absence… — Margaret Beckett Copy Share Image
When future generations judge those who came before them on environmental issues, they may conclude "they didn't know": let us not go… — Mikhail Gorbachev Copy Share Image
Climate change is destroying our path to sustainability. Ours is a world of looming challenges and increasingly limited resources. Sustainable development offers… — Ban Ki-moon Copy Share Image
As long as there is no trust and confidence that there will be justice and fairness in resource distribution, political positioning will… — Wangari Maathai Copy Share Image
It's important to listen to what scientists have to say, even when it's inconvenient, especially when it's inconvenient — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
And as we [ the Church] move towards setting new (United Nations') sustainable development goals, we also understand that one of our… — Marcelo Sanchez Sorondo Copy Share Image
Resources businesses must contribute to sustainable development if we are to continue to have access to resources. — Cynthia Carroll Copy Share Image
There must be a better way to make the things we want, a way that doesn't spoil the sky, or the rain… — Paul McCartney Copy Share Image
Sustainable development is development that meets the needs of the present without compromising the ability of future generations to meet their own… — Gro Harlem Brundtland Copy Share Image
During my nearly five years as director-general of WHO, high-level policymakers have increasingly recognized that health is central to sustainable development. — Gro Harlem Brundtland Copy Share Image
Global sustainability is now the only avenue to future inclusive progress that can deliver the Sustainable Development Goals and the Paris climate… — Johan Rockstrom Copy Share Image
When I circumnavigated the globe the outcome didn't really matter, it was about a goal I'd set myself, but sustainability is part… — Ellen MacArthur Copy Share Image
We all have an interest, and a duty to future generations, to ensure that the benefits of mobility that we now take… — Elliot Morley Copy Share Image
Gender equality is more than a goal in itself. It is a precondition for meeting the challenge of reducing poverty, promoting sustainable… — Kofi Annan Copy Share Image
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