Klaus Toepfer Quotations

One is that if you have no price, no limitation of carbon dioxide, you don't have the demand for those technologies.

One area that the IOC might wish review is the issue of recycling of sporting infrastructure. Take bobsleigh for example. TOROC did a great job to try and mitigate its environmental impact. But the fact remains that constructing, operating and maintaining what is effectively a huge fridge in the mountains raises many fundamental questions of sustainability.

The main quest for overcoming poverty and a secure future is to make energy available because we cannot cut poverty if we cannot bring affordable energy to the people.

Day in and day out and across the oceans and seas of the world nature is working to generate incomes and livelihoods for millions if not billions of people.

We must convince and empower people to adopt the conservation and sustainable use of biodiversity as their guiding principle,

These facts are especially poignant when you factor in the impact of climate change which is triggering more extreme weather events like droughts.

that investigation at these locations wasn't necessary anymore. That is very clearly not correct.

more detailed field analysis of soil and water quality is needed to gauge the exact state of rehabilitation.

These are ... sites that have a history of contamination, all of which are linked to massive neglect.

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.