Environmental disaster is the gravest threat to China's continued development. That's according to me but it is not some wacko view.

Global markets must be balanced by global values such as respect for human rights and international law democracy security and sustainable economic and environmental development.

More than ever before there is a global understanding that long-term social economic and environmental development would be impossible without healthy families communities and countries.

You cannot achieve environmental security and human development without addressing the basic issues of health and nutrition.

One of the things that I've always thought I would like to do is to develop an environmental index. Then people can measure their own environmental performance on an index as they do in other ways.

I've developed a huge regard for Toyota for its environmental awareness for its immense commitment to research and development in this field and for its leadership in developing hybrids which others are now following.

The industrial processes in use today were developed at a time when no one had to consider what the environmental impact was. Who cared? But making ecological concerns matter to a company's bottom line will help it do the research and development that will reinvent everything we buy.

The most meaningful engine of change powerful enough to confront corporate power may be not so much environmental quality as the economic development and growth associated with the effort to improve it.

If people destroy something replaceable made by mankind they are called vandals if they destroy something irreplaceable made by God they are called developers.

One of the biggest development issues in the world is the education of girls. In the United States and Europe it has been accepted but not in Africa and the developing countries.