Christiana Figueres Quotes

#1. This is probably the most difficult task we have ever given ourselves, which is to intentionally transform the economic development model, for the first time in human history.

Christiana Figueres

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

Christiana Figueres

#3. But what's so blessed-fair that fears no blot? Thou mayst be false, and yet I know it not.

William Shakespeare

#4. We will move to a low-carbon world because nature will force us, or because policy will guide us. If we wait until nature forces us, the cost will be astronomical.

Christiana Figueres

#5. You can't just sit there and do the lines. You have to do something revealing or unusual.

Elia Kazan

#6. Have you ever noticed' I said 'how everyone says they want to be different, but as soon as they meet someone who really is different, they ostracize them?

Charles De Lint

#7. Digestion is one of the most delicately balanced of all human and perhaps angelic functions.

M.F.K. Fisher

#8. Well, I never been to SpainBut I kinda like the musicSay the ladies are insane thereAnd they sure know how to use itThey don't abuse it, never gonna lose itI can't refuse it.

Hoyt Axton

#9. He wore his hope like a winter coat, layered over the top of all of him.

Cora Carmack

#10. No," she cried, "no, no, I'm not a harem, I'm not a woman, I'm not a person, no.

Gregory Maguire

#11. I still do not understand why we don't have people on the streets every single day raising their voices for climate.

Christiana Figueres

#12. We cannot ask others to do what we have not done ourselves.

Christiana Figueres

#13. It is possible for even the most deeply disturbed and desperately unbalanced among us to be a beautiful person.

George Howe Colt

#14. It's a compulsive need to wreck everything. You might notice there's a pattern of stripping down and building back up again throughout my life. But I guess that's how some of us conduct our lives.

David Bowie

#15. Kindness begins with the understanding that we all struggle.

Charles F. Glassman

#16. KAIROS A unique time in a person's life; an opportunity for change.

May Sarton

#17. We have already used more than half of that budget. This means that three quarters of the fossil fuel reserves need to stay in the ground, and the fossil fuels we do use must be utilized sparingly and responsibly.

Christiana Figueres

#18. We are just about to cross the 400 parts per million threshold.

Christiana Figueres

#19. 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