Achieve Quote by Ban Ki-moon

Sustainable development is development that meets the needs of the present without compromising the ability of future generations to meet their own needs.

— Gro Harlem Brundtland

Sustainable development is a process which enables all people to realise their potential and to improve their quality of life in ways which protect…

— Sara Parkin

'Sustainable Development' is an oxymoron. 'Development' in all it's senses entails expansion and wanting more. Continual expansion and wanting more are unsustainable. Globally we…

— Don Johnston

Sustainable development: Meeting present needs without compromising the stock of natural resources remaining for future generations. In terms of buildings, it implies resource efficiency,…

— Richard Rogers

Sustainability is especially ripe for political controversy and opposition because fundamentally it is a new paradigm that represents significant challenges to the status quo.…

— Hazel Henderson

Sustainability is an economic state where the demands placed upon the environment by people and commerce can be met without reducing the capacity of…

— Paul Hawken

Sustainability is growth based on forms and processes of development that do not undermine the integrity of the environment on which they depend

— Jim MacNeill

Sustainable development is a fundamental break that's going to reshuffle the entire deck. There are companies today that are going to dominate in the…

— Francois-Henri Pinault

So-called 'sustainable development'... is meaningless drivel.

— James Lovelock

“The outcome document known as “Transforming our World: The 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development” highlights poverty eradication as the overreaching goal of the new…

— New Media Wing

We don't know yet how to build a society which is environmentally sustainable, which is shareable with everybody on the planet, which promotes stability…

— Alex Steffen

Climate change is destroying our path to sustainability. Ours is a world of looming challenges and increasingly limited resources. Sustainable development offers the best…

— Ban Ki-moon