Ban Ki-moon Quotes About Challenges

Quotes about: Challenges

• Climate change does not respect border; it does not respect who you are - rich and poor, small and big. Therefore, this is what we call global challenges, which require global solidarity.

  Ban Ki-moon

  Challenges, Climate, Doe

• We must turn the greatest collective challenge facing humankind today – climate change – into the greatest opportunity for common progress towards a sustainable future.

  Ban Ki-moon

  Opportunity, Challenges, Progress

  "Big Idea 2014: The Year for Climate Action" by Ban Ki-moon, www.un.org. December 10, 2013.

• There can be no solution to the challenge of climate change that is not global. But if we can come together in partnership, we can transform today's challenge into tomorrow's opportunity - an opportunity for green growth and sustainable prosperity... we also need a strong bottom-up push from academics and opinion-shapers such as you. Universities such as yours are founts of ideas and innovation. They are furnaces of innovation and entrepreneurship. So, send forth this word.

  Ban Ki-moon

  Strong, Opportunity, Ideas

• Given the nature and magnitude of the challenge, national action alone is insufficient. No nation can address this challenge on its own. No region can insulate itself from these climate changes. That is why we need to confront climate change within a global framework, one that guarantees the highest level of international cooperation.

  Ban Ki-moon

  Challenges, Climate, Needs

• This is the moral challenge of our generation. Not only are the eyes of the world upon us. More important, succeeding generations depend on us. We cannot rob our children of their future.

  Ban Ki-moon

  Children, Eye, Our Generation

  Speech at Bali climate change conference 2007, www.theguardian.com. December 12, 2007.

• I have been urging the leaders to listen to the aspirations and challenges of their own people, and engage in dialogue and take very bold measures. Normally, to their regret, these measures and bold reforms come too late, too little.

  Ban Ki-moon

  Regret, People, Leader

  Source: www.huffingtonpost.com

• Climate change...is, simply, the greatest collective challenge we face as a human family.

  Ban Ki-moon

  Challenges, Climate, Faces

  Ban Ki-moon's Remarks at 39th Plenary Assembly of the World Federation of United Nations Associations, www.un.org. August 10, 2009.

• One of the main lessons I have learned during my five years as Secretary-General is that broad partnerships are the key to solving broad challenges. When governments, the United Nations, businesses, philanthropies and civil society work hand-in-hand, we can achieve great things.

  Ban Ki-moon

  Keys, Government, Hands

• Climate change is destroying our path to sustainability. Ours is a world of looming challenges and increasingly limited resources. Sustainable development offers the best chance to adjust our course.

  Ban Ki-moon

  Challenges, Climate, Limited Resources

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