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Saving our planet, lifting people out of poverty, advancing economic growth – these are one and the same fight.

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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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Economics Player Thinking
Saving our planet requires you to be ambitious in what you aim, and, equally, in how hard you work to reach your goal.
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Ambitious Goal Saving
Society’s dependence on fossil fuels is jeopardising social and economic progress.
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Fossils Fuel Progress
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
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
Planet Earth is our shared island, let us join forces to protect it
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Earth Force Island
Gender equality and women’s empowerment have been a top priority for me from day one as Secretary-General. And I am committed to making sure that the U.N. leads by example.
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Empowerment Example Priorities
As many micro-credit schemes across the world can testify, investment in women is the best investment for the future.
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Credit Investment World
The clear and present danger of climate change means we cannot burn our way to prosperity. We already rely too heavily on fossil fuels. We need to find a new, sustainable path to the future we want. We need a clean industrial revolution.
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Climate Mean Needs
Sustainable development and climate change are two sides of the same coin
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Climate Inspiring Sides Two
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
Our atmosphere can’t tell the difference between emissions from an Asian factory, the exhaust from a North American SUV, or deforestation in South America or Africa.
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America Atmosphere Differences
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
I strongly reject threats by any member state to destroy another or outrageous attempts to deny historical facts such as the Holocaust.
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Country Destroy Historical Holocaust
I am willing to take any measures when it comes to the fundamental principle of human rights.
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Fundamentals Principles Rights
Migration is an expression of the human aspiration for dignity, safety and a better future. It is part of the social fabric, part of our very make-up as a human family
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Expression Fabric Safety

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