Michel Temer Quotes

Good environmental policy is good economic policy.

My role is not to choose between safeguarding the economy and protecting the environment - it's about doing both.

We don't have to sacrifice a strong economy for a healthy environment.

If I were emperor of the world, I would put the pedal to the floor on energy efficiency and conservation for the next decade.

We're saying environmental stewardship and jobs in the economy. We can do both together.

We cannot sustain long-term growth in our economies if we do not protect and preserve our environment.

Yes, we have ruined the Earth and have done an exceptionally good job of it. Yes, we should look at sustainable development. But we cannot afford to do things sequentially, but parallelly and make sure that we do not repeat our mistakes.

Securing a sustainable future will take all of us working together.

Curbing pollution and global warming takes a global cooperative mindset. Development aid needs to be rethought in this context.

We need to stop being so profligate with fossil fuels, to rein back climate change and protect biodiversity. We need to work together, globally, and I'm optimistic that we will.

We have reached a new milestone as a human family. With seven billion of us now inhabiting our planet, it is time to ask some fundamental questions. How can we provide a dignified life for ourselves and future generations while preserving and protecting the global commons - the atmosphere, the oceans and the ecosystems that support us?

I've always been a strong supporter of environmental protection and initiatives in that area. But I'm willing to set priorities. If we have to make reductions in one place, we'll have to-in order to increase another place, I'm willing to do that.

Regulations about environments are going to get tougher and tougher.

Yes, the Green Party is committed to a healthy environment. But the Green Party is not solely committed to just that.

We had some major successes and we did so because the country embraced the spirit of Earth Day and embraced this concept that we have to have forward-looking, visionary environmental policy and energy policy in this country.

World-wide practice of Conservation and the fair and continued access by all nations to the resources they need are the two indispensable foundations of continuous plenty and of permanent peace.

Environmentalism opposes reckless innovation and makes conservation the central order of business.

All the conservation efforts in the world won't be enough to make a dent in the oncoming sustainability crisis our planet faces.

I think today we recognize that economic activity needs to search for ways to protect the environment.

We can't drive our SUVs and eat as much as we want and keep our homes on 72 degrees at all times... and then just expect that other countries are going to say OK. That's not leadership. That's not going to happen.

The laws of nature tell us there's a finite amount of any substance on the face of the earth, and at some point, that's going to run out. And if we're smart and we have some grace and we have some willingness about our destiny, then we will take ourselves into the renewable world.

We know it is impossible to go on finding, moving and wasting oil, leveling forests, paving land, dumping poisons, and multiplying our numbers. A new way of life, a new set of thoughts must be found.

This whole idea that we address environmental issues by not doing stuff just doesn't work.

We need a greening of globalisation.

We cannot continue to close our eyes to the fact that we have to truly embrace green jobs, new technologies and alternative sources of energy.