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
Resources businesses must contribute to sustainable development if we are to continue to have access to resources. — Cynthia Carroll 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
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
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
...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
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
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
Anything else you're interested in is not going to happen if you can't breathe the air and drink the water. Don't sit… — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
Do we have to wait until a disaster overwhelms us before we make the radical changes necessary to protect our world for… — John Gummer Copy Share Image
Many ideas have struggled over the centuries to dominate the planet. Fascism. Communism. Democracy. Religion. But only one has achieved total supremacy.… — Jonathon Porritt Copy Share Image
For those who believe that ecological disaster will somehow be averted, it must also be clear that, over the next decade or… — Stuart L. Hart 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
We are convinced that universal health coverage, with strong primary care and essential financial protection, is the key to achieving the ambitious… — Tedros Adhanom Copy Share Image
his planet came with a set of instructions, but we seem to have misplaced them. Important rules like don’t poison the water,… — Paul Hawken Copy Share Image
Rethinking the future: It is a profound challenge, at the end of an era of cheap oil and materials to rethink and… — Ellen MacArthur 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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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 UPA's strategy of 'inclusive growth' remains the foundational pillar of economically, politically, and socially sustainable development. — Sanjaya Baru 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
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
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
'Sustainable Development' is an oxymoron. 'Development' in all it's senses entails expansion and wanting more. Continual expansion and wanting more are unsustainable.… — Don Johnston Copy Share Image
As to the Amazon itself, the transition from conservation to sustainable development was a huge awakening since conservation was a western concept… — Yossi Ghinsberg 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
Positive deviance means doing the right thing for sustainability, despite being surrounded by the wrong institutional structures, the wrong processes and stubbornly… — Sara Parkin Copy Share Image
I also, as I think most people do, have a healthy instinct that if we upset the balance of nature, we are… — Tony Blair 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
I became very interested [in philosophy] after attending the U.N. Conference on sustainable development in Brazil.I'm very concerned about climate change and… — Nick Offerman 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
People need open space. People need to bring their children into an area where they can play without restriction." And I was… — Wangari Maathai 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
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