"Mere months after the fossil fuel divestment campaign really took off, MSCI, which is one of Morgan Stanley’s offshoots, ranked divestment as the number one trend for investors to watch."

"The fossil fuel industry’s political power warps the entire debate, so it would be one thing if politicians were discussing climate policy in good faith, absent fossil fuel lobbying money. If that were the case, we’d have solved this problem by now. But divestment gives us a very direct way of calling into question the social license of the fossil fuel industry and that is in fact a tool to see the kind of policy change we need."

"So many people feel connected to the climate change movement and it’s important for everyone who’s involved, whether they’re a school teacher in the UK or a farmer in Burundi, to see themselves in this movement. So the more leaders who reflect the diversity of the movement, the broader, the bigger, the stronger the movement will be."

"There’s a structural sexism problem, full stop. If you look at the numbers, they don’t lie. There’s just not as many women leading, in that sense – running the organisation, being the figurehead."

"My entrepreneurship spirit has since helped to empower many women through providing them with the means and support to generate an income, now they’re able to care for their families."

"All of our stories are important."

"I was one of those kids who ran lemonade stands to raise money for [animal rights group] Peta on the weekends. I was really into activism, I still am. To be part of a community who share this passion, this set of values, is what I want for my life."

"The idea was ‘we’ll run this campaign and we’ll see what happens’. It’s only been recently that the idea that this is actually a long-term thing has become real."

"I started seeing a lot of people indiscriminately dumping their garbage at the back of their houses and in the street. The problem was only getting worse and other than just looking ugly, the waste piles were also causing other issues in my community."

"We plucked plastic bags from trash piles and took them home together with my four friends. We washed the bags, dried them, cut them into strips, and crocheted them into bags. Other people made fun of us but we never gave up, we just pressed on, knowing that we were doing it for a good cause."

"I still remember sneaking into the canals as a child and seeing the greenery along them. Already there was less and less nature around them, but it was such a healing moment for me. My house was a rowhouse along the main road. We had no backyard, just the street. The only walks you could do were very hot, very dangerous and very polluted."

"In short, as critical as it is for us to speak up as individuals, our real power emerges when we act collectively."

"Now you don’t; everyone knows what it is. It’s right there for you to see."

"It didn’t much matter how well we understood the issue if we weren’t to take that both were common property resources to share and manage globally."

"In my experience, to have eyes wide open is to hold a broken heart every day."

"To address climate change, we must make gender equity a reality. And in the face of a seemingly impossible challenge, women and girls are a fierce source of possibility."

"Women are the primary farmers of the world,”They produce 60 to 80 percent of the food in lower-income countries."

"I think about the feminine as the life-giving energy that circulates through the world. It’s an appreciation for interdependence and the connectedness of all things. It’s about working with the living systems of the planet rather than trying to conquer or wrangle them. The Feminist Climate Renaissance is not a revolution or a takeover or a war, but rather an upwelling of a better way to do climate-oriented work."

"This technology can become the pillar of what would enable people around the world to mine landfills for plastics as a new carbon source,” Wang said. “We don’t have to drill for oil anymore to make the things around us.”"

"LPGA is my dream, and it’s the highest stage for professional golfers. My goal is to put out my best performance to show myself and to show the people that believe in me that I'm able to be performing well on that stage, I will be also very proud because I'm Chinese player and I will be proud to follow their steps. To be on Tour with Ruoning and Xiyu would be really exciting for me.”"

"For us, climate change is primarily a water crisis,” she said. “Our people can feel its impacts in their daily lives, each year through worsening floods, rising sea levels, and severe drought."

"The floods changed my life."

"My identity is confusing. In Thai culture I’m a little bit American, and in American culture I’m very Thai. I don’t want gender to be another burden."

"There's greater risk of displacement, higher odds of being injured or killed during a natural disaster. Prolonged drought can precipitate early marriage, as families contend with scarcity. Floods can force last-resort prostitution as women struggle to make ends meet. These dynamics are most acute under conditions of poverty."

"A legal challenge is being prepared challenge the approval."

"The confidence that carried me through that initial uncertainty was at least partly inspired by the women I worked with for the previous three years."

"Fletcher's academic offerings will need to be more flexible, more financially accessible, and more responsive to remain attractive and compelling for students who want programs that can more immediately impact their professional growth,. “The reforms we have made in our academic offerings are having an impact, but we know that there is more to do.”"

"I hope this initiative can help … usher in a new generation of policymakers and policies that see that the provision of energy services is very different in the future than the way we have provided them in the past,” she said, adding that if ISEP can help overcome this “big stumbling block,” it will pave the way for “one of the greatest pivots of our time.”"

"A big part of this will lie in helping governments “pivot” away from the old energy provision models — based on centralized, fossil fuel-based utilities — toward newer decarbonized and decentralized models,"

"No one is an environmentalist by birth. It is only your path, your life, your travels that awaken you."

"“If we want to continue living on this planet, we have to solve the plastic pollution problem and we have to solve it within our generation. Humans have the incredible ability to innovate to survive at times when it matters. Now is one of those times.”"

"I got sort of politicized around environmental issues broadly in high school and kind of carried that student activism into my undergraduate years. And I remember at some point ... I want to say, maybe my second year or so in college, I realized that if I wanted to work on environmental issues, that probably meant working on climate change. I learned a lot from a friend of mine in college, Billy Parish, who really got the youth climate movement going. He was kind of my entry point."

"Green, climate resilient areas are a “good long-term investment” for cities, she said, and “the best solution for the next generation."

"I don’t see a market now or in the future for capture or storage on its own, but for use, yes,"

"But big questions remain around who pays for carbon capture, storage, and use — government, companies, individuals, or development finance institutes — and these questions “need to be worked on now,”"

"“the international community [needs] to come together and offer better alternatives [and] not just analysis,” as well as presenting a “pathway forward with available finance for those alternatives.”"

"We know how to help communities through transition … delaying debate on that or portraying it as anything else is delaying the job at hand,"

"Being resilient is the ability to thrive and to survive,” Voraakhom said. “We have that ability as human beings, but our urban infrastructure does not have it and doesn’t allow us to have it."

"“democratization of the way in which people achieve their energy needs.” This shift is both “exciting and terrifying” for regulators and institutional managers in the old energy system,"

"In many sinking cities, including Bangkok, the current urban infrastructure is not fit for purpose and is “reducing our ability to adapt (to climate change),” noting that many of Bangkok’s waterways and canals have been destroyed or have fallen into disrepair. “We need to fix them and rethink the way we develop (cities)."

"I want to thank Tony and Jeanne Pritzker and UCLA for considering us for this prestigious award, which could help us surpass our last technical hurdle before moving across the finish line,”"

"We are providing a service to process this material at a price that is comparable to [the cost of sending it to] landfills,”"

"Focusing on those traditionally beyond the energy system is actually something which needs to be front of mind in policymaking,”"

"What we need today as a nation is a new paradigm of growth—whenever and however it happens."

"This doesn’t mean we have to stop developing. Just we have to do it differently."

"We cannot afford to do what China and America did: have decades of 8 percent GDP growth, then do a cleanup act later."

"thumb|Rachel Kyte at Spotlight Health Aspen Ideas Festival 2015For some time, I have felt a growing pull between the work I love of leading Fletcher and working with all of you and the opportunities to contribute to the vital and increasingly urgent work I feel compelled to be part of about our collective future,"

"Integration” of services will be critical to addressing this access gap"

"The decision is dire but we have a plan” which includes “fighting the government and Equinor here on the streets but we are also going to fight them in court”."

"Plastics are useful, but the downside of this convenience is that plastics cause serious problems like the destruction of ecosystems.”"