"Educating young women and empowering women to come to decision-making tables is the strongest thing that we can do fo…"

"Those corporations that continue to invest in new fossil fuel exploration, new fossil fuel exploitation, are really i…"

"“We struggled for years to be able to bring all of these nature-based issues together. There is no such thing as ‘cli…"

"“If we do not address climate change in a timely manner, it does not really matter what we do on human rights, on edu…"

"We have the capital, the technology, the policies. And we have the scientific knowledge to understand that we have to…"

"Whatever we hold as being possible, and whatever values and principles we live by, determine the actions that we take."

"The very concept of being a consumer already points us in the direction of consuming irresponsibly. We have to be abl…"

"People reducing their emissions – by flying less, eating less meat and using clean energy, for example – is important."

"We are now at the most critical crossroads in the history of humanity."

"On my first press conference, a journalist asked...Ms. Figueres, do you think that a global agreement is ever going t…"