You cannot tackle hunger, disease, and poverty unless you can also provide people with a healthy ecosystem in which their economies can grow.
Interpretation
Sustainable development requires addressing essential human needs alongside environmental well-being.
Gro Harlem Brundtland emphasizes the interconnectedness of economic growth, health, and environmental sustainability. To effectively combat hunger, disease, and poverty, itβs crucial to create and maintain a healthy ecosystem that supports human development and economic progress. This holistic approach acknowledges that issues cannot be solved in isolation but require a comprehensive strategy that includes ecological health.
In practice
In a speech about climate change, one could say: 'As Gro Harlem Brundtland noted, we cannot tackle hunger and disease without a healthy ecosystem.'
We are working towards a shared vision of the future for health among all the world's people. A vision future in which we develop new ways of working together at global and national level. A vision which has poor people and poor communities at its centre. And a vision which focuses action on the causes and consequences of the health conditions that create and perpetuate poverty.
More than ever before, there is a global understanding that long-term social, economic, and environmental development would be impossible without healthy families, communities, and countries
You cannot achieve environmental security and human development without addressing the basic issues of health and nutrition.
The dual scourge of hunger and malnutrition will be truly vanquished not only when granaries are full, but also when people's basic health needs are met and women are given their rightful role in societies
Sustainable development is development that meets the needs of the present without compromising the ability of future generations to meet their own needs.
If globalization is to realise its potential as a force for good, we have to look more closely at the means by which we handle our growing interdependence. We do not have a world government, but we do have an increasingly complex network of institutions that are concerned with global governance. They are central to our future and international human rights law
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