For the first time in human history, society has the capacity, the knowledge and the resources to eradicate poverty — Thabo Mbeki Copy Share Image
If our economies are to flourish, if global poverty is to be banished, and if the wellbeing of the world's people enhanced… — Gordon Brown Copy Share Image
...the core values that underpin sustainable development - interdependence, empathy, equity, personal responsibility and intergenerational justice - are the only foundation upon… — Jonathon Porritt Copy Share Image
“You are what you eat. If you want to live long, take good care of that.” — Olawale Daniel 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
There can be no real growth without healthy populations. No sustainable development without tackling disease and malnutrition. No international security without assisting… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
We live on this very small and fragile planet: a world in which there is poverty and injustice is never going to… — Hilary Benn Copy Share Image
To realize lasting peace and sustainable development in human society, members of the international community have to cooperate with one another fully… — Wu Bangguo Copy Share Image
Recognizing that sustainable development, democracy and peace are indivisible is an idea whose time has come... Today we are faced with a… — Wangari Maathai Copy Share Image
Fifteen per cent of the population believe the moon landing was actually staged in a movie lot in Arizona and somewhat fewer… — Al Gore Copy Share Image
Energy is essential for development, and sustainable energy is essential for sustainable development. — Tim Wirth 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
We have embarked globally on a path of unsustainable development. Our lifestyles, the way we produce goods and services, are all part… — Rajendra K. Pachauri Copy Share Image
The era of procrastination...is coming to a close...we are entering a period of consequences - Winston Churchill (warning about the danger of… — Al Gore Copy Share Image
Sustainable development: Meeting present needs without compromising the stock of natural resources remaining for future generations. In terms of buildings, it implies… — Richard Rogers Copy Share Image
We know that when women have access to voluntary family planning services, supplies and information, society sees enormous gains in each of… — Jenny Shipley 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
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
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
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
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
Under the current high energy / high entropy regime, sustainable development is a joke. — James Howard Kunstler 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
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
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