Society’s dependence on fossil fuels is jeopardising social and economic progress.
BAN KI-MOONWomen must be full partners in development, so they can lift themselves and their communities out of poverty.
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We must turn the greatest collective challenge facing humankind today – climate change – into the greatest opportunity for common progress towards a sustainable future.
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My observation is China is thinking more as a global player than regionally, in both politics and economics.
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The longer we delay, the more we will pay.
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Since problems spill across borders, security anywhere depends on sustainable development everywhere.
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Nothing is more shameful than attacking sleeping children.
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We hold the future in our hands, together, we must ensure that our grandchildren will not have to ask why we failed to do the right thing, and let them suffer the consequences.
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It is but a short step from hunger to starvation, from disease to death.
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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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People everywhere look to the United States to use its remarkable power to help lift humanity up and to work for the common good.
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I am willing to take any measures when it comes to the fundamental principle of human rights.
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In a world of plenty, no one, not a single person, should go hungry. But almost 1 billion still do not have enough to eat. I want to see an end to hunger everywhere within my lifetime.
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Reason doesn’t mean very much in a country like North Korea.
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The world is over-armed and peace is under-funded.
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I call for the need of world leaders to address climate change and reduce the increasing risk of disasters- and world leaders must include mayors, townships and community leaders.
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As many micro-credit schemes across the world can testify, investment in women is the best investment for the future.
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