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
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
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
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
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
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
Resources businesses must contribute to sustainable development if we are to continue to have access to resources. — Cynthia Carroll 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
Yes, we have ruined the Earth and have done an exceptionally good job of it. Yes, we should look at sustainable development.… — Rakesh Sharma Copy Share Image
I went to art school in Chicago for a year at Columbia College. I had this whole master plan of getting into… — Nico Tortorella 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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
At every level the greatest obstacle to transforming the world is that we lack the clarity and imagination to conceive that it… — Roberto Unger Copy Share Image
For the first time in human history, society has the capacity, the knowledge and the resources to eradicate poverty — Thabo Mbeki Copy Share Image
Africa's economies are gaining ground and can develop their full potential with the right partner. Siemens wants to support their sustainable development… — Joe Kaeser 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
It is critical for us to cultivate consciousness and compassion towards our environment, create awareness, galvanize people, and build sustainable innovations for… — Dia Mirza Copy Share Image
Sustainable development is not an option! It is the only path that allows all of humanity to share a decent life on… — Sha Zukang Copy Share Image
The global commitment for the Sustainable Development Goals offers a profound opportunity to tackle the structural, social, and economic changes needed to… — Tedros Adhanom Copy Share Image
The human race is challenged more than ever before to demonstrate our mastery, not over nature but of ourselves. — Rachel Carson Copy Share Image
Any regeneration project that fails to put environmental and social benefits at its very heart is unlikely to achieve anything more than… — Jonathon Porritt Copy Share Image
Simply put, girls and women are the keys that will unlock sustainable development. They are also at the center of the healthier… — Tedros Adhanom Copy Share Image
Building a world where we meet our own needs without denying future generations a healthy society is not impossible, as some would… — Christopher Flavin 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
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
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
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
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
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
The Green Climate Fund is very much a strategic building block in the architecture for financing sustainable development. — Isabella Lovin Copy Share Image
“The Neo-Feudalism of UN Agenda 21/Sustainable Development is reviving serfdom as the condition of the future. If you let it.” — Rosa Koire Behind the Green Mask Copy Share Image
Our society lacks a feedback loop for controlling technology: a way to gauge intended effects from actual effects later on — Kevin Kelly Copy Share Image
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