Gender equality is more than a goal in itself. It is a precondition for meeting the challenge of reducing poverty promoting sustainable development and building good governance.

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.

I firmly believe that we can have a healthy environment and a sustainable timber industry.

You can't have a sustainable US economy without a great education system. Teach students to do the job right. You don't have an innovative economy unless you have a great education.

Education is a human right with immense power to transform. On its foundation rest the cornerstones of freedom democracy and sustainable human development.

I still indulge in a glass of wine or chocolate - treats are mandatory. Without deviating from the day-to-day healthy diet once in a while it wouldn't be sustainable for me and that's what I wanted: an approach to eating to last my entire life.

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

We have got to change our ethics and our financial system and our whole way of understanding the world. It has to be a world in which people live rather than die a sustainable world. It could be great.