Top 1200 Sustainable Development Quotes & Sayings

Preservation of the environment, promotion of sustainable development and particular attention to climate change are matters of grave concern for the entire human family. No nation or business sector can ignore the ethical implications present in all economic and social development. With increasing clarity scientific research demonstrates that the impact of human actions in any one place or region can have worldwide effects.

Soil mapping is one of the pillars to the challenge of sustainable development

The realization of a sustainable economic development strategy for Maine's Native American communities has always been a priority and a critical element of my administration's overall economic development strategy.

Sustainable development requires human ingenuity. People are the most important resource.

Ownership is a sine qua non of sustainable development.

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 tackle global warming...Sustainable development will not just be a subject in the classroom: it will be in its bricks and mortar and the way the school uses and even generates its own power.

My next goal is for Shenzhen to become the model of environmentally-friendly and sustainable development.

Including women in climate policy and solutions can enhance the results, leading to more economic growth and sustainable outcomes. However, we cannot take for granted that gender equality and women's empowerment in the field of climate change and sustainable development will happen automatically.

Global sustainability is now the only avenue to future inclusive progress that can deliver the Sustainable Development Goals and the Paris climate agreement.

Our biggest challenge in this new century is to take an idea that seems abstract - sustainable development - and turn it into a reality for all the world's people

Global growth and development that is strong, sustainable, and inclusive requires the challenges of inequality to be met head-on.

It's widely recognized that there is no peace without development and no development without peace; it is also true that there is no peace and sustainable development without respect for human rights.

No sustainable development, environmental harmony or lasting security will happen if we are unable to eradicate hunger and extreme inequality

All our efforts to defeat poverty and pursue sustainable development will be in vain if environmental degradation and natural resource depletion continue unabated.

Preservation of the environment, promotion of sustainable development and particular attention to climate change are matters of grave concern for the entire human family.

Population needs to be stabilised for sustainable development.

We are far from the so called 'end of history,' since the conditions for a sustainable and peaceful development have not yet been adequately articulated and realized.

I am committed to lending my voice and participating in action campaigns to support the U.N. Sustainable Development Goals that must be achieved by 2030.

We know the problems, and we know the solution: sustainable development. The issue is the political will.

literacy is at the heart of sustainable development

Humanitarian response, sustainable development, and sustaining peace are three sides of the same triangle.

Investing in women's lives is an investment in sustainable development, in human rights, in future generations - and consequently in our own long-term national interests.

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

The Prime Minister of India, at a meeting that I co-chaired a few months ago, stated that any development that is not sustainable is not development.

Only one rational path is open to us - simultaneous de-development of the [overdeveloped countries] and semi-development of the underdeveloped countries (UDCs), in order to approach a decent and ecologically sustainable standard of living for all in between. By de-development we mean lower per-capita energy consumption, fewer gadgets, and the abolition of planned obsolescence.

There can be no sustainable development without sustainable energy development

The Paris Agreement underlines the urgency to implement climate action in support of sustainable development.

So-called 'sustainable development' is meaningless drivel.

I went to art school in Chicago for a year at Columbia College. I had this whole master plan of getting into sustainable development and green architecture and construction, so I wanted to go to business school and then get my masters in construction and development.

Under the current high energy / high entropy regime, sustainable development is a joke.

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

There should be order if the development of the cyber world is to be sustainable.

In my view, there is an urgent need to communicate with the public and help to explain where there is consensus, and where are there doubts about the issues of sustainable development.

Sustainable development and climate change are two sides of the same coin

Sustainable development is a proven catalyst for Xerox innovation.

Resources businesses must contribute to sustainable development if we are to continue to have access to resources.

Since problems spill across borders, security anywhere depends on sustainable development everywhere.

The UPA's strategy of 'inclusive growth' remains the foundational pillar of economically, politically, and socially sustainable development.

The Industrial Age is not sustainable. Its not sustainable in ecological terms, and its not sustainable in human terms.

The Green Climate Fund is very much a strategic building block in the architecture for financing sustainable development.

Simply put, girls and women are the keys that will unlock sustainable development. They are also at the center of the healthier and more resilient societies we desire.

Sustainable development: Holding our world in trust for our children

The global commitment for the Sustainable Development Goals offers a profound opportunity to tackle the structural, social, and economic changes needed to end AIDS.

It is critical for us to cultivate consciousness and compassion towards our environment, create awareness, galvanize people, and build sustainable innovations for sustainable development.

Sustainable South Bronx advocates for environmental justice through sustainable environmental and economic development projects.

'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 are approaching the point when the only sustainable way forward is to want less. Indeed, the choice element may be removed from us and we will just have to have less. In the meantime we still have some choices about how to influence our future

Capitalism, as practiced, is a financially profitable, non-sustainable aberration in human development.

During my nearly five years as director-general of WHO, high-level policymakers have increasingly recognized that health is central to sustainable development.

Haiti should remind us all that there is an immediate need to invest in and promote long-term development projects that are sustainable, scalable, and proven to work.

Energy is essential for development, and sustainable energy is essential for sustainable development.

Nevertheless, the concept of sustainable development is now known - even amongst those who haven't accepted it - and it's recognized, debated and followed by an increasing number of businesses.

A safe and nutritionally adequate diet is a basic individual right and an essential condition for sustainable development, especially in developing countries.

What pleases me most is that sustainable development is on almost everybody's agenda now.

Companies not interested in sustainable development issues will not survive long

It is through technological innovation and the pursuit of sustainable social, economic, and ecological development that we can chart the country's path to progress and power a greener tomorrow.

That the AIDS pandemic is threatening sustainable development in Africa only reinforces the reality that health is at the center of sustainable development.

People need open space. People need to bring their children into an area where they can play without restriction." And I was told, "This is development." And I said, "That is not development, definitely not sustainable development, definitely not responsible development. People need fresh air. They can do without buildings. They can do without concrete. But they cannot do without fresh air.

To realize lasting peace and sustainable development in human society, members of the international community have to cooperate with one another fully and make concerted efforts.

We have to make sustainable living convenient, sustainable business profitable & sustainable change fashionable

The Industrial Age is not sustainable. It's not sustainable in ecological terms, and it's not sustainable in human terms.