Klaus Topfer Quotes

The gains made by better management and technology are still being outpaced by the environmental impacts of population and economic growth. We are on an unsustainable course.

Protecting biodiversity is just as important and critical to the survival of mankind as stabilizing the climate. Species protection and climate are interdependent.

It's difficult to protect something if it doesn't have a price.

Most of all, Creation must be protected for its own sake, even if we currently assign no value or an incorrect value to it.

We must convince and empower people to adopt the conservation and sustainable use of biodiversity as their guiding principle.

We have a duty to rescue our closest living relatives as part of our wider responsibilities to conserve the ecosystems they inhabit.