Sustainability makes good business sense, and we're all on the same team at the end of the day. That's the truth about the human condition.
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Businesses and governments need to work together and make a joint commitment if we want to address climate change effectively and quickly.
Interpretation
Collaboration between businesses and governments is essential for effectively tackling climate change.
This quote emphasizes the necessity of cooperation between the corporate sector and governmental bodies to confront the pressing challenge of climate change. It suggests that a unified approach, characterized by mutual commitment and action, is crucial for achieving significant progress in addressing environmental issues.
In practice
This quote can be used in a speech about climate policy at a sustainability conference.
Sustainability makes good business sense, and we're all on the same team at the end of the day. That's the truth about the human condition.
I think the most important thing is to achieve what you set out to achieve. Just being a CEO in itself is not success. I would not relate success to a title or a position.
Let's work together to make our economies strong and our climate sustainable. It can be done.
I discovered a long time ago that if I focus on doing the right thing for the long term to improve the lives of consumers and customers all over the world, the business results will come.
Permissible growth in the future has to be based on sustainable and equitable models.
The young give us hope because young people are certain their best days still lie ahead - which explains why they're absolutely convinced they can change the world for the better.
If we recognise that every ecosystem can also be viewed as a food web, we can think of it as a circular, interlacing nexus of plant animal relationships (rather than a stratified pyramid with man at the apex)β¦ Each species, be it a form of bacteria or deer, is knitted together in a network of interdependence, however indirect the links may be.
Finally, by the sea, where God is everywhere, I gradually calmed.
As a child, I used to have a secret dread - and a recurring nightmare - of the whole world becoming city, being covered with cement and buildings and streets. No more country. No more woods.
[My] excursions provided a unique opportunity for observing [the gorillas' behavior] in their natural habitat... Then, all too soon, the infants were demanded for their trip to the zoo. ... [H]appily the babies did not know they would never see their mountain home again
You would have thought that our first priority would be to ask what the ecologists are finding out, because we have to live within the conditions and principles they define. Instead, we've elevated the economy above ecology.
Storms make trees take deeper roots.
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