Quotes About Sustainability

Most of us working on poverty alleviation simply want to know, 'How much poverty can I reduce for every dollar I donate?'

We have shared responsibility for global climate; we have to reduce climate change below 2 degrees Celsius.

There are many different ways we can choose to reduce our carbon impacts.

Let's make sure that when companies make investments to reduce emissions that they're rewarded for that and encouraged to do more.

What is the quickest way to reduce our dependence on oil? Embrace hybrid technology.

If we got more efficient with electric grid capacity, we would substantially reduce our carbon footprint, and people would be likely to copy us.

Nuclear power can continue to help us reduce our greenhouse gas emissions, but we must do everything we can to make it safer.

The most effective way to reduce your carbon footprint is to fly less often. If everyone took fewer flights, airline companies wouldn't burn as much jet fuel.

They call me garbage queen at home, because I'm extremely particular about reduce, reuse and recycle.

We need to reduce carbon emissions, protect Maine's key industries and preserve our coastlines from flooding and rising sea levels.

If the oil runs out, we'll be reduced to fracking Alex Salmond.

Saying you must rotate three crops a year, a certain percentage of your land must be set aside, and some of the other proposals, my sense is that it's a little anti-technology, and the ability of European farmers to feed Europe is reduced as a result.

First and foremost, energy efficiency is a major lever for reducing CO2 emissions along all parts of the energy chain - from the production of resources all the way to final consumption.

Reducing and reusing take nothing more than a rethink on the way we shop, and using our imagination with the things that we might once have considered junk.

It is impossible to talk about slowing climate change without talking about reducing CO2 emissions. Equally, it is impossible to talk about adapting to climate change without considering how we will feed ourselves. And it is out of the question that we can adapt agriculture without conserving crop diversity.

Americans increasingly understand that clean energy is more than just an environmental issue. It is crucial to reducing our dangerous dependence on foreign countries.

My main aim is poverty reduction in the state.

It's really important that we have an improvement curve on fuel mileage and CO2 reduction.

We run enormous risks and we know what kind of reductions of greenhouse gases are necessary to drastically reduce risks. Reducing emissions by half by 2050 is roughly in the right ballpark. It would bring us below 550 ppm.

Creating large numbers of decent jobs for young people is critical for achieving overall development objectives, from poverty reduction to better health and education.

Our demand for meat, dairy and refined carbohydrates - the world consumes one billion cans or bottles of Coke a day - our demand for these things, not our need, our want - drives us to consume way more calories than are good for us.

We believe that the farm should be building 'forgiveness' into the ecosystem. What does that mean? That a more forgiving ecosystem is one that can better handle drought, flood, disease, pestilence.

I have a hard time with businesses that don't make money at some point.

Our country has had a hard time learning that lesson with energy.