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Quotes About Global

The planet's biggest problems have to do with sustainability, environmental decline, global poverty, disease, conflict and so forth. Really, they're all interconnected - it's one big problem, which is that the way we're doing things can't go on.
~ Alex Steffen
All the conservation efforts in the world won't be enough to make a dent in the oncoming sustainability crisis our planet faces.
~ Naveen Jain
There are three major issues now that are becoming important, not only for cities, but for all mankind: Mobility, sustainability - which is linked to mobility - and social diversity.
~ Jaime Lerner
The first step to prescribing the right medicine is to recognize the cause of the illness. And, when it comes to what is ailing the global economy, extreme monetary easing has been more cause than cure. The sooner we recognize that, the stronger and more sustainable the global economic recovery will be.
~ Raghuram Rajan
The world is at a big risk from climate change. We have to come up with solutions, to bring in a sustainable economy.
~ Tulsi Tanti
Global growth and development that is strong, sustainable, and inclusive requires the challenges of inequality to be met head-on.
~ Winnie Byanyima
There is only one possible future for humanity, and that is a sustainable one.
~ Patricia Espinosa
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.
~ Maurice Strong
The role of G-20 is to support the global economy to achieve strong, sustainable and balanced growth.
~ Lee Myung-bak
To make sustainable progress in reducing extreme poverty will require improvements in both the quantity and quality of aid.
~ Peter Singer
Bayer CropScience aims to lead the way in sustainable crop solutions, and we are heavily investing in R&D, as well as production capacities, to respond to global demand for differentiated crop solutions.
~ Sandra E. Peterson
What's personally sustainable is globally sustainable.
~ Dean Ornish
Global sustainability is now the only avenue to future inclusive progress that can deliver the Sustainable Development Goals and the Paris climate agreement.
~ Johan Rockstrom
What pleases me most is that sustainable development is on almost everybody's agenda now.
~ Maurice Strong
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.
~ Maurice Strong
You need in the long run for stability, for economic growth, for jobs, as well as for financial stability, global economic institutions that make sure that growth to be sustained has to be shared, and are built on the principle that the prosperity of this world is indivisible.
~ Gordon Brown
I think anything that requires real global breakthroughs requires a degree of intensity and sustained effort that cannot be done part time, so it's something you have to do around the clock, and that doesn't compute with our existing educational system.
~ Peter Thiel
Physical infrastructure remains important (particularly in developing nations), but concurrently investing in the development of a knowledge-based economy is essential to sustaining healthy economic growth and creating well-paying jobs in a highly competitive, ideas-driven global economy.
~ Khalid A. Al-Falih
Climate change has the potential to swallow up all other issues of development.
~ Rohini Nilekani
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.
~ Charles Soule
I wrote 'The Blue Sweater' to inspire more people to become engaged in working to solve the problems of global poverty.
~ Jacqueline Novogratz
I grew up all over the world, including countries such as Sweden, Norway, U.S.A., and Kuwait.
~ Johan Renck
International markets are much bigger than the U.S. In Sweden we have 9 million inhabitants, and if you're successful in Sweden, you're not successful - it's such a small market.
~ Niklas Zennstrom
I've seen quite a bit of the world, but I really like Sweden and feel like I could live there some day.
~ Juliana Hatfield