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" Providing financial incentives for both local communities and national governments to conserve and restore forests also makes sense. It will put an economic value on these precious natural resources and drive the right behaviours from both government and business. "

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" 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. "

Paul Polman

Business

Growth

Great

" Our political leaders have great responsibilities, but as with many situations in life, people often rise or fall to meet your expectations. Our responsibility as citizens is to expect our leaders to lead and to give them enough support so that they may do so. "

" To achieve policy stability and certainty, we need to establish a meaningful price on carbon and cut the billions of dollars spent each year on fossil-fuel subsidies, along with well-structured financial tools and rules. "

" I am very confident about the Modi government. "

Paul Polman

Government

About

" I believe that the financial crisis of 2008/9 exposed more a lack of ethics and morality - especially by the financial sector - rather than a problem of regulation or criminality. There were, of course, regulatory lessons to be learned, but at heart, there was a collective loss of our moral compass. "

" Unilever has been around for 100-plus years. We want to be around for several hundred more years. "

" Many businesses understand the advantages of gender parity. "

" Renewable energy could reduce emissions but also create jobs and improve public health. "

" If we all act together - business, governments, NGOs and citizens and, especially, the young - just imagine the good we could create. "

" I say to a lot of people you have to measure success in terms of progress, not in terms of end state. "

" Too many companies are running their business into the ground, I would argue, by being myopically short-term focused on the shareholder. "

" For Unilever, investing in women is an imperative. The business and social cases for doing so are inextricably linked. "

" I've always been bothered by systems that don't work for everybody. It doesn't mean we're all equal. I am not naive about that. But we should have a more inclusive society. "

Paul Polman

Society

Mean

" Africa's vibrancy and entrepreneurial spirit is un-matched. There's huge potential here to grow business, create jobs, and to improve living standards. "

" In certain cases, empowering women starts with making their lives easier and removing unnecessary burdens. "

" It cannot be right in a world of increasing human progress - whether in medicine, space exploration or renewable energy - that so many people are denied the most basic human rights. "

" There are some basic human needs that are the same. Everybody wants to succeed. "

" I see business as an ecosystem. "

" As CEO of Unilever, my personal mission is to galvanize our company to be an effective force for good. "

" Left unchecked, climate change risks not only making the poorest poorer, but pulling the emerging middle classes back into poverty, too. "

" P&G started in 1837, Nestle in 1857. These companies have been around for so long because they are in tune with society. They are very responsible companies, despite the challenges that they sometimes deal with, all the criticism they get. "

" At the end of the day, people will follow you or people will be energised by you if they buy into your vision or purpose. So the most important thing is to be true to yourself. That's why I would say to be a great leader - you, first and foremost, have to be a great human being. And sharing that purpose and sharing the values. "

" My own fear, if I have one myself, is a fear of being obsolete. This is a world that changes very fast, and one of the main human desires is to belong to, to be part of, something. It's probably one of our greatest needs next to oxygen. "

" System-wide changes rely on a critical mass of interested parties, all willing to enter into deep partnerships and collaborations, founded on new levels of trust and a commitment to action, not debate. "

" Sustainability makes good business sense, and we're all on the same team at the end of the day. That's the truth about the human condition. "

" Permissible growth in the future has to be based on sustainable and equitable models. "

" We need more food, more forests, better livelihoods for smallholder farmers, and lower emissions. If we want any of them, we must have all of them. "

Paul Polman

Better

Farmers

" Business has a responsibility and opportunity to be the driving force for the advancement of universal human rights. "

" The world faces enormous human development and environmental challenges, from poverty and disease to food security and climate change. "

" I discovered a long time ago that if I focus on doing the right thing for the long term to improve the lives of consumers and customers all over the world, the business results will come. "