Quotes About Environment

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.

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

Population needs to be stabilised for sustainable development.

Building a 'Green Gabon' has always been a central pillar of my government, and in 2014, I introduced a new legal framework that puts environmental protection and sustainable development firmly at the heart of our future economic growth.

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

Also, it is interesting that developing countries, with China and India perhaps in the lead, where the future of the global environment will be decided are now on board with the case for sustainable development.

Runaway climate change would condemn millions to a life of poverty and cause us to fail to meet the Sustainable Development Goal of eradicating extreme poverty by 2030. This is not an acceptable outcome.

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

Brazil's commitment to sustainable development is a deep-rooted one. It permeates our public policies and our actions abroad.

That tertiary education is under a sustained assault by a political and - it often seems - social consensus that equates all education with training for increased productivity, only makes academe a still more promising environment for a contrarian.

The most staggering linguistic turnabout for me is the one that equates green economy with 'sustained economic growth.'

Climate change has the potential to swallow up all other issues of development.

Swallows have disappeared, bees are dying out because of pesticides that should have been banned long ago - it's a scandal.

One of the things that's been really fun about my run on 'Swamp Thing' is putting him in all kinds of different locations around the world, and seeing how his exterior foliage changes based on his location.

I'm crazy about ducks and swans and geese, so I don't eat foie gras. I try to eat organic.

There's something I love about how stark the contrast is between January and June in Sweden. In a way, I feel that time doesn't exist in LA. Sometimes I don't know if it's February or April or October, because you're always sitting outside on the same patio, and it's 70 degrees.

Many people, especially in the U.S., see countries like Sweden or Norway or Finland as role models - we have such a clean energy sector, and so on. That may be true, but we are not role models.

The pace of Swedish crime fiction is slower - Stieg Larsson's the exception. And I think we use the environment more.

Both San Francisco and New York are taking bold, sweeping action to reduce emissions, make our infrastructure more resilient and improve the health of our people. We are also leading the charge against those who continue to deny the existence of climate change.

Some makeup companies have really good recycling policies, and it's worth finding out whether your favourites are among them. With MAC, for instance, you can take any of your old makeup containers into its shops, and the sweetest deal is that, once you've racked up six containers, you get a free lipstick or lip gloss.

We are borrowing money from future generations. We are borrowing the carbon impact, the resource impact from future generations to get stuff cheap now. We have swept the dirt and dust from our society under the carpet - but this carpet is on other side of the planet.

I'm concerned that we don't address the water pollution problems in other countries. If we move forward and don't clean up the messes of the past, they'll just get swept under the rug.

The Exxon Valdez spill triggered a swift and strong response that changed policies about shipping, about double-hulled construction. A number of laws came into place.