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Energy is essential for development, and sustainable energy is essential for sustainable development. — Tim Wirth
To block the construction of centralized power projects, as not being 'appropriate' or 'sustainable' is to condemn billions of people to continued poverty and disease-and… — Unknown Author
The transition to a low-carbon economy will be one of the defining issues of the 21st century. This plan sets out a route-map for the… — Ed Miliband
All new schools...should be models for sustainable development: showing every child in the classroom and the playground how smart building and energy use can help… — Tony Blair
That the AIDS pandemic is threatening sustainable development in Africa only reinforces the reality that health is at the center of sustainable development. — Gro Harlem Brundtland
As a nation, this is the moment to start seriously investing our time, energy and resources into proven methods of reducing violence, both within our… — Joaquin Phoenix
I feel that our planet is in peril and that creating a sustainable planet for my children and my children's children is the most important… — Kyra Sedgwick
The investment in our mining industry has been very positive for Australia but we need to be doing more if we want, as I do,… — Gina Rinehart
There can be no real growth without healthy populations. No sustainable development without tackling disease and malnutrition. No international security without assisting crisis-ridden countries. And… — Gro Harlem Brundtland
We have to shift our emphasis from economic efficiency and materialism towards a sustainable quality of life and to healing of our society, of our… — Janet Holmes a Court
I envisage the prinicles of the Earth Charter to be a new form of the ten commandments. They lay the foundation for a sustainable global… — Mikhail Gorbachev
Current lifestyles and consumption patterns of the affluent middle class - involving high meat intake, use of fossil fuels, appliances, air-conditioning, and suburban housing -… — Maurice Strong
Global warming is not only the number one environmental challenge we face today, but one of the most important issues facing all of humanity... We… — Leonardo DiCaprio
We must turn the greatest collective challenge facing humankind today, climate change, into the greatest opportunity for common progress towards a sustainable future — Ban Ki-moon
We need to develop the new green industrial revolution that develops the new technologies that can confront and overcome the challenge of climate change; and… — Tony Blair
We need to recognise that slowing population growth is one of the most cost-effective and reliable ways of easing pressure on our environment and securing… — Lionel Shriver
When my parents were growing up the world's population was under three billion. During my children's lifetime, it is likely to exceed nine billion. You… — Tony Blair
I believe that companies, doing business in a responsible and sustainable way, can help raise the quality of life and standards of living in some… — Unknown Author
Developing countries present a real opportunity for sustainable consumption. There, we can start from a clean slate and develop appropriate products and services that serve… — Paul Meyer
No sustainable development, environmental harmony or lasting security will happen if we are unable to eradicate hunger and extreme inequality — Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva
Many organic practices simply make sense, regardless of what overall agricultural system is used. Far from being a quaint throwback to an earlier time, organic… — David Suzuki
We need to believe in a bright, compelling and sustainable future. Fear neither motivates people long-term nor brings out the best in them. Hope is… — Arron Wood
In the long term, it will be the human race that must take responsibility for the development of sustainable life-styles and economies that are not… — David de Kretser
Globalisation can provide the route for the development of a sustainable and prosperous planetary society in the next generation, provided that globalisation itself becomes more… — Peter Ellyard
A sustainable agriculture is one which depletes neither the people nor the land. — Wendell Berry

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