Klaus Toepfer Environment Quotations

It is clear from this report, and from a series of other studies published throughout the year, that the environment is something like the red ribbon running through the Millennium Development Goals.

On this special United Nations Day, let us take those adequate steps to stop the careless exploitation and destruction of the environment by making the necessary changes in our own lives, in our own attitudes, and in our own behavior. We don't have another thousand years,

In terms of the environment, the two organizing committees are taking forward a green torch first lit at Lillehammer, Norway in 1994,

The evidence of their rapid revival is a positive signal, not only for the environment and the local communities who live there, but must be seen as a contribution to wider peace and security for the Iraqi people.

The environment . . . is not a luxury good, only affordable when all other problems have been solved.