Asks Quote by Christiana Figueres

Connect with people, visibly and loudly showcase initiatives that reduce greenhouse gases emissions, nurture youth leaders, or spread the message by raising awareness through…

— Christiana Figueres

When you have a vision of where you need to go, it sounds utopian. But when you get to the tipping point, your understanding…

— Christiana Figueres

We have already used more than half of that budget. This means that three quarters of the fossil fuel reserves need to stay in…

— Christiana Figueres

Carbon neutrality is going to be so standardized that you will look at anything that is not carbon neutral and go, "where the hell…

— Christiana Figueres

DEMAND, PURCHASE & USE LOW CARBON PRODUCTS AND SERVICES. MAKE LOW CARBON SEXY!

— Christiana Figueres

Each building should produce as least as much energy as it's going to need, and have more to put on the grid. They should…

— Christiana Figueres

This is probably the most difficult task we have ever given ourselves, which is to intentionally transform the economic development model, for the first…

— Christiana Figueres

Second, I believe in human ingenuity – that when we decide on a task to be done, no matter how daunting it may seem…

— Christiana Figueres

The record-breaking extreme weather events causing chaos across the globe should be a wake-up call. The transition to a low-carbon economy will be much…

— Christiana Figueres

The fact that solar has gone down 80 percent since 2008 is astonishing. Wind is perhaps not coming down as quickly. Lack of storage…

— Christiana Figueres

We shouldn't have stupid cars that use liquid fossil fuels. Come on, how outmoded is that? We have to get to the point where…

— Christiana Figueres

Quite frankly, there is no answer to climate change without substantially, dramatically, increasing the amount of renewable energy in the global energy system.

— Christiana Figueres