Jeff Van Drew Quotes

The economy of the future has been aligned with the climate agenda. Even the competitiveness of companies will depend on how resource efficient they are.

Green technologies - going green - is bigger than the Internet. It could be the biggest economic opportunity of the 21st century.

The most staggering linguistic turnabout for me is the one that equates green economy with 'sustained economic growth.'

Sustainable development requires human ingenuity. People are the most important resource.

Nevertheless, the concept of sustainable development is now known - even amongst those who haven't accepted it - and it's recognized, debated and followed by an increasing number of businesses.

Taking bold action on climate change simply makes good business sense. It's also the right thing to do for people and the planet. Setting a net-zero GHG emissions target by 2050 will drive innovation, grow jobs, build prosperity, and secure a better world for what will soon be 9 billion people.

It is our responsibility as businesses to deliver ambitious solutions and technologies to bring us low-carbon, inclusive and sustainable growth.

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

What pleases me most is that sustainable development is on almost everybody's agenda now.

The first rule of sustainability is to align with natural forces, or at least not try to defy them.

I firmly believe that we can have a healthy environment and a sustainable timber industry.

Energy-saving technologies keep improving faster than they're applied, so efficiency is an ever larger and cheaper resource.

We need to promote development that does not destroy our environment.

We can have technology, prosperity, nice homes and cars, but at the same time we must be conscious of what we are dumping into the water, the air and our food.

Conservation of energy also protects our environment.

And I know that the younger generation is doing things that are so ingenious. And for them it's not a matter of a political belief or an environmental stance. It's really just common sense.

It doesn't take a rocket scientist to figure out that any way of living that's based on the use of non-renewable resources won't last.

Green business is not about tie-dyed T-shirts. It's about transforming the industrial system itself into one that looks at all the connections.

We can be pro-growth, pro-jobs, and pro-environment.

What's personally sustainable is globally sustainable.

The great challenge of the 21st century is to provide good standards of living for 7 billion people without depleting the earth's resources or running up massive levels of public debt. To achieve this, government and business alike will need to find new models of growth that are in both environmental and economic balance.

By using our renewable resources, energy can be generated in a carbon-responsible, cost-effective manner that also creates jobs and mitigates climate change, providing a workable and affordable solution that will keep our planet healthy.

It's time for all of us to kind of think about the green initiative as a whole. Monetizing it is very important. It's on us to continue to put the message out.

Our planet's greener future depends on nurturing our natural and abundant renewable resources.

I always thought that using more efficient energy sources, pushing the clean energy technologies such as renewable energies are important.