21st Century choice: Look after our planet and it will look after us, or don't and face the consequences — Phil Harding Copy Share Image
The world must learn to work together, or finally it will not work at all. — Dwight D. Eisenhower Copy Share Image
Without environmental sustainability, economic stability and social cohesion cannot be achieved — Phil Harding Copy Share Image
We have a dire need to get onto the page as a sustainable country — Digby Jones, Baron Jones of Birmingham Copy Share Image
We live not, in reality, on the summit of a solid earth but at the bottom of an ocean of air — Thales Copy Share Image
We do not have a freehold on the earth, only a full repairing lease — Margaret Thatcher Copy Share Image
If something is sustainable, it means we can go on doing it indefinitely. If it isn't, we can't — Jonathon Porritt Copy Share Image
Energy is essential for development, and sustainable energy is essential for sustainable development. — Tim Wirth Copy Share Image
Runaway climate change would condemn millions to a life of poverty and cause us to fail to meet the Sustainable Development Goal… — Paul Polman Copy Share Image
What politician ever thinks beyond 4 or 5 years? But such thinking is hopelessly inadequate for the big questions that involve the… — Simon Barnes Copy Share Image
Sustainability is a political choice, not a technical one. It's not a question of whether we can be sustainable, but whether we… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I always run into these Ph.D.s. They write and write and write about sustainable development. Then these guys ask me, 'But, how… — Jaime Lerner Copy Share Image
It would be disastrous if bad planning policy meant that today's new developments become tomorrow's climate slums — Tim Yeo Copy Share Image
We're never going to scare people into living more sustainably! We have to be able to demonstrate just how dynamic and aspirational… — Jonathon Porritt Copy Share Image
“Innovation is important, but what kind of a moronic species races to put a man on the moon, before it takes its… — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
That the AIDS pandemic is threatening sustainable development in Africa only reinforces the reality that health is at the center of sustainable… — Gro Harlem Brundtland Copy Share Image
“To expect sustainable development or a trust in business as usual to be viable policies is like expecting a lung cancer victim… — James E. Lovelock Copy Share Image
“Capitalism is also incapable of promoting sustainable development, not because it encourages technological advances that are capable of straining the earth's resources… — Ellen Meiksins Wood Copy Share Image
Quite apart from our desire to avoid destroying the planet or economic meltdown, I offer another reason to position cooperation at the… — Oliver James Copy Share Image
...four in five of us are, to some extent, members of faith communities. If just a fraction of this huge body of… — Ian Christie Copy Share Image
Acknowledging our love for the living world does something that a library full of papers on sustainable development and ecosystem services cannot:… — George Monbiot Copy Share Image
If we human beings learn to see the intricacies that bind one part of a natural system to another and then to… — Gaylord Nelson Copy Share Image
The three pillars of development (economic, social and environmental) must be strengthened together. But it is evident that two of the pillars… — Dave Hampton Copy Share Image
The African Union has to act in order to put an end to armed conflicts that undermine the continent, to fight against… — Omar Bongo Copy Share Image
The future of life on earth depends on our ability to take action. Many individuals are doing what they can, but real… — David Attenborough Copy Share Image
The 'Big Green Debate' has entered a very interesting stage. Once there was endless controversy; now there is near unanimity. Once there… — Jonathon Porritt Copy Share Image
Both rich and poor nations have a common stake in policies that put the globe on a sustainable development path. The conflict… — Robert Kuttner Copy Share Image
Humanity today is rightly concerned about the ecological balance of tomorrow. It is important for assessments in this regard to be carried… — Pope Benedict XVI Copy Share Image
“The outcome document known as “Transforming our World: The 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development” highlights poverty eradication as the overreaching goal of… — New Media Wing Copy Share Image
“The totalitarian greens, sometimes called ecofascists, would like to see most other humans eliminated in genocide and so leave a perfect Earth… — James Lovelock Copy Share Image
In 1966 Rolf Edberg wrote "This is mankind's home", "in the narrow borderland between the deathly heat beneath our feet and the… — Margot Wallstrom Copy Share Image
“The obvious pollution occurring in many places - worst of all, in the planned societies- has encouraged the growth of the environmental… — Jacqueline Kasun Copy Share Image
“It is prudent to analyze the dynamics of innovations and its sustainable transition.” — Jonathan Tetteh-Cole Copy Share Image