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Climate change has happened because of human behaviour, therefore it’s only natural it should be us, human beings, to address this issue. It may not be too late if we take decisive actions today.

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I am not a national leader. If I am a national leader I can speak out all that I want.
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Leader Speaks Out Want
The longer we delay, the more we will pay.
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Delay Longer More Pay
Saving our planet, lifting people out of poverty, advancing economic growth… these are one and the same fight. We must connect the dots between climate change, water scarcity, energy shortages, global health, food security and women’s empowerment. Solutions to one problem must be solutions for all.
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Fighting People Water
My observation is China is thinking more as a global player than regionally, in both politics and economics.
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Economics Player Thinking
Nothing is more shameful than attacking sleeping children.
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Attacking Children Sleep
Climate change does not respect border; it does not respect who you are – rich and poor, small and big. Therefore, this is what we call global challenges, which require global solidarity.
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Challenges Climate Doe
Between now and 2015, we must make sure that promises made become promises kept. The consequences of doing otherwise are profound: death, illness and despair, needless suffering, lost opportunities for millions upon millions of people.
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Opportunity People Profound
Society’s dependence on fossil fuels is jeopardising social and economic progress.
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Fossils Fuel Progress
I call on men and boys everywhere to join us. Violence against women and girls will not be eradicated until all of us – men and boys – refuse to tolerate it.
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Boys Girl Powerful
We must unite. Violence against women cannot be tolerated, in any form, in any context, in any circumstance, by any political leader or by any government.
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Government Leader Political
Men must teach each other that real men do not violate or oppress women – and that a woman’s place is not just in the home or the field, but in schools and offices and boardrooms.
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Home Real School
This is the moral challenge of our generation. Not only are the eyes of the world upon us. More important, succeeding generations depend on us. We cannot rob our children of their future.
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Children Eye Our Generation
The current model is global suicide. We need a revolution. Revolutionary thinking. Revolutionary action. Natural resources are becoming more and more scarce.
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Business Suicide Thinking
To measure the success of our societies, we should examine how well those with different abilities, including persons with autism, are integrated as full and valued members.
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Autism Different Our Society
Women must be full partners in development, so they can lift themselves and their communities out of poverty.
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Community Development Poverty
Climate change is destroying our path to sustainability. Ours is a world of looming challenges and increasingly limited resources. Sustainable development offers the best chance to adjust our course.
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Challenges Climate Limited Resources

Climate change has happened because of human behaviour, therefore it’s only natural it should be us, human beings, to address this issue. It may not be too late if we take decisive actions today.

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Climate change has happened because of human behaviour, therefore it’s only natural it should be us, human beings, to address this issue. It may not be too late if we take decisive actions today.

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