- Energy Production
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- Nov 07, 2020
Environmental Quotes
On awareness, activism, and the politics neither can escape.
One quote points to women in Kenya walking for hours to find water and firewood as the first to feel environmental degradation, grounding the topic in daily life rather than policy debate. For related themes, see our Earth quotes.
- Last Updated on May 30, 2021
- Environmental Issues
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- Nov 07, 2020
We firmly believe the environmental issues cannot be addressed without extensive public participation, but people need to be informed before they can get involved.
- Drive
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- Nov 07, 2020
Brands who come to China, often they just care about price - so they actually drive the suppliers to cut corners on environmental standards to win a contract.
- Doing
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- Nov 07, 2020
China has leapfrogged into this information age, and Web users have grown very significantly, which knocked down the cost of doing the environmental transparency.
- Job
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- Nov 07, 2020
In America, you complain about job losses because of China, but here, we carry all of the environmental costs.
- Money
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- Nov 07, 2020
When I look at China's environmental problems, the real barrier is not lack of technology or money. It's lack of motivation.
- Impossible
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- Nov 07, 2020
The motivation should come from regulatory enforcement, but enforcement is weak, and environmental litigation is near to impossible. So there's an urgent need for extensive public participation to generate another kind of motivation.
- Government
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- Nov 07, 2020
Even the government understands that the environmental challenge is so big that no single agency can handle it. It needs collaboration among all the stakeholders - companies, governments, NGOs and the public. Public accountability will be the ultimate driving force.
- Environmental Problems
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- Nov 07, 2020
Environmental problems cannot be resolved here the way they are resolved in other countries. I heard that 80 per cent of the environmental problems in the U.S. are solved in court. That can't happen here.
- Green
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- Nov 07, 2020
On April 16, 2010, 34 Chinese environmental organizations, including Friends of Nature, the Institute of Public and Environmental Affairs, and Green Beagle, questioned heavy metal pollution in a letter sent to CEO Steve Jobs.
- Quality
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- Nov 07, 2020
If major companies sourcing in developing countries care only about price and quality, local suppliers will be lured to cut corners on environmental standards to win contracts.
- Help
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- Nov 07, 2020
It has been shown that public participation can limit powerful interest groups, while competing interests can help find a reasonable balance between development and environmental protection.
- Government
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- Nov 07, 2020
China's environmental conundrums will not be solved by changes within government alone. New mechanisms are needed to allow the communities which may be affected by a given plan, and citizens concerned about the environment, to join in.
- Growth
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- Nov 07, 2020
Environmental agencies in China are hamstrung by local officials who put economic growth ahead of environmental protection; even the courts are beholden to local officials, and they are not open to environmental litigation.
- Law
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- Nov 07, 2020