We do not have a freehold on the earth, only a full repairing lease — Margaret Thatcher 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
We don't, in a sensible world, want to hand on an increasingly dysfunctional world to our grandchildren — Prince Charles Copy Share Image
...deficit consumption is, in effect, drawing down on the capital entitlements of future generations — Jonathon Porritt Copy Share Image
“The world doesn't need another climate summit, the world needs a climate summon.” — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
The world must learn to work together, or finally it will not work at all. — Dwight D. Eisenhower Copy Share Image
A politician thinks of the next election. A statesman, of the next generation. — James Freeman Clarke 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
On this International Literacy Day, let us recall that literacy for all is an integral part of education for all, and that… — Kofi Annan Copy Share Image
Sustainable development is the pathway to the future we want for all. It offers a framework to generate economic growth, achieve social… — Ban Ki-moon Copy Share Image
Whatever the short term clashes between protecting the environment and eradicating poverty, medium term and long term it is clear. Unless we… — Tony Blair 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
The scarcest resource is not oil, metals, clean air, capital, labour, or technology. It is our willingness to listen to each other… — Donella Meadows 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
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
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
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
The fossil reserves that have already been discovered exceed what can ever be safely used. Yet companies spend half a trillion dollars… — Desmond Tutu Copy Share Image
As the international community comes together to create rules for developing and deploying technology, America and its allies and partners aim to… — Linda Thomas-Greenfield Copy Share Image
Including women in climate policy and solutions can enhance the results, leading to more economic growth and sustainable outcomes. However, we cannot… — Patricia Espinosa Copy Share Image
We were able to conclude a Paris climate agreement, which will lead the way for the rest of the world, which is… — Angela Merkel 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 sustainability revolution will, hopefully, be the third major social and economic turning point in human history, following the Neolithic Revolution -… — Prince Charles 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
Without environmental sustainability, economic stability and social cohesion cannot be achieved — Phil Harding Copy Share Image
Sustainable development is a proven catalyst for Xerox innovation. — Anne M. Mulcahy Copy Share Image
Keeping people on side is a precondition of making any progress on sustainability issues — Jonathon Porritt Copy Share Image
Sustainable development and climate change are two sides of the same coin — Ban Ki-moon Copy Share Image
Since problems spill across borders, security anywhere depends on sustainable development everywhere. — Ban Ki-moon 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
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
The UPA's strategy of 'inclusive growth' remains the foundational pillar of economically, politically, and socially sustainable development. — Sanjaya Baru 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 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
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
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
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
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
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
...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
