Figueres Quotes

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

Christiana Figueres

#2. 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

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

Christiana Figueres

#4. Imagine, if you will, that I am an idiot. Then, imagine that I am also a Congressman. But, alas, I repeat myself.

Mark Twain

#5. 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

#6. Good God, what must I do to win you?

Susan Wiggs

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

Christiana Figueres

#8. That's what children eventually were for their aging parents: custodians of technology, free personal IT departments keeping them from disappearing forever from the universal cloud.

Christopher Bollen

#9. 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

#10. A piece of advice his father had given him surfaced in Edgar's mind. Sometimes, he had said, it's better just to keep quiet and think with your heart.

Sharan Newman

#11. 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

#12. I can't believe you chose that old hammer over me!

Kim Dallmeier

#13. The point is to wake up, not to earn a Ph.D. In waking up.

Jed McKenna

#14. On Dec. 1, 1948, after the triumph of the revolution, which insured the final victory of the will of the people expressed through elections, President Jose Figueres abolished the army in my country.

Oscar Arias

#15. I do a lot of yoga, and when I'm in L.A., I have an outdoorsy sort of lifestyle. It's sort of comfortable, West Coast, yoga chic.

Gugu Mbatha-Raw

#16. On the death of a friend, we should consider that the fates through confidence have devolved on us the task of a double living, that we have henceforth to fulfill the promise of our friend's life also, in our own, to the world.

Henry David Thoreau

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

Christiana Figueres

#18. Well, I like songs that have like a little bit of quirkiness to them.

John Legend