Development Efforts Quotes
- The essential role of the environment is still marginal in discussions about poverty. While we continue to debate these initiatives, environmental degradation, including the loss… — Wangari Maathai
- For too long the development debate has ignored the fact that poverty tends to be characterized not only by material insufficiency but also by denial… — Kofi Annan
- We must understand the role of human rights as empowering of individuals and communities. By protecting these rights, we can help prevent the many conflicts… — Mary Robinson
- One of the gaps in our international development efforts is the provision of global public goods - that is, goods or conditions we need that… — Anna Lindh
- In the coming era of manned space exploration by the private sector, market forces will spur development and yield new, low-cost space technologies. If the… — Burt Rutan
- Coal is our most abundant fossil fuel. (GE's) development efforts are to just end up making the plants more competitive on an economic basis by… — Bill Vaughan
- This double burden of disease is rapidly putting a serious brake on the development efforts of many countries. — Gro Harlem Brundtland