Short term "dash for cash" economic solutions hinder progress towards a better, more sustainable, world — Phil Harding Copy Share Image
“Sustainable Development is more than meeting the needs of today and the future generations; to my understanding this definition better fits sex… — M.F. Moonzajer Copy Share Image
This is the new politics. Personal responsibility. Not leaving it to others. I am my planet's keeper. — Hilary Benn Copy Share Image
We need economic growth, yes, but growth can be jobless, so a sustainable development framework for employment must include a job creation… — Sharan Burrow Copy Share Image
Ever more people are alert to the challenge of global poverty and global warming. We know that solutions are at hand. We… — Jonathan Dimbleby 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
We do not have a freehold on the earth, only a full repairing lease — Margaret Thatcher Copy Share Image
Humanitarian response, sustainable development, and sustaining peace are three sides of the same triangle. — Antonio Guterres Copy Share Image
Once a photograph of the Earth, taken from outside, is available, we shall, in an emotional sense, acquire an additional dimension... — Fred Hoyle Copy Share Image
We must encourage energy conservation and sustainable development. Young people are the ones who are most environmentally conscious in Ireland, so that… — Mary Robinson 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
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
When my parents were growing up the world's population was under three billion. During my children's lifetime, it is likely to exceed… — 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's widely recognized that there is no peace without development and no development without peace; it is also true that there is… — Antonio Guterres Copy Share Image
Sustainability is a set of conditions and trends in a given system that can continue indefinitely — Alan AtKisson Copy Share Image
As Americans, we have shown ourselves to have the greatest military on the face of the planet, but we are not so… — Martin O'Malley 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
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
The western model of growth that India and China wish to emulate is intrinsically toxic. It uses huge resources - energy and… — Sunita Narain Copy Share Image
It makes no sense to invest in [fossil fuel] companies that undermine our future — Desmond Tutu Copy Share Image
We need a new environmental consciousness on a global basis. To do this, we need to educate people. — Mikhail Gorbachev Copy Share Image
Instead of controlling the environment for the benefit of the population, perhaps we should control the population to ensure the survival of… — David Attenborough Copy Share Image
All new schools...should be models for sustainable development: showing every child in the classroom and the playground how smart building and energy… — Tony Blair Copy Share Image