Important reserves of natural resources, like petroleum and precious metals, are the bulwarks for laying the foundations for the future.

It is only through developing and maximizing all its natural resources that a sustainable future for Africa and its people can be secured.

Indonesia is rich in natural resources. Indonesia is rich in manpower with its 103 million inhabitants - not like Malaysia with its 10 million.

Water is unquestionably one of the most important natural resources and is essential for sustaining life.

Plastic should be a high value material... [It] should be in products that last a long time, and at the end of the life, you recycle it. To take oil or natural gas that took millions of years to produce and then to make a disposable product that last minutes or seconds, and then to just discard it--I think that's not a good way of using this resource. (Robert Haley)

Mexico holds the fifth-largest shale gas reserve in the world, in addition to large deep-water oil reserves and a tremendous potential in renewable energy.