We have to get to the point where each individual, each corporation, each community chooses low carbon, because it makes fundamental sense. It should become a no-brainer. Christiana Figueres More Quotes by Christiana Figueres More Quotes From Christiana Figueres No architect should design buildings that import a huge amount of energy. Christiana Figueres building design energy You can rear children in an antagonistic environment or in a facilitative one with a good combination of love and discipline. It's about supporting them, and recognizing achievements and contributions, but also saying, "that's fantastic but it's not enough, here's the next thing." Christiana Figueres achievement discipline children The U.S. military is investing in new storage technology because most of the weight that soldiers carry on their backs is batteries. Once that gets developed for the military, it will be expanded to civilians. Christiana Figueres technology military soldier Connect with people, visibly and loudly showcase initiatives that reduce greenhouse gases emissions, nurture youth leaders, or spread the message by raising awareness through campaigns. I am convinced that your contributions will ensure that climate change solutions safely power our - and especially your - future. Christiana Figueres leader messages people The fact that solar has gone down 80 percent since 2008 is astonishing. Wind is perhaps not coming down as quickly. Lack of storage - batteries - is a bottleneck. That makes it very difficult to put large amounts of renewable energy on the grid. Christiana Figueres batteries energy wind 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 be using all of the natural light and natural heat. Christiana Figueres light energy needs It behooves the rest of the world to come together to support Japan, as well as the other Asian countries, to move beyond coal, we need to make an extraordinary effort that will favor the new fuels that we all need to move in to. Christiana Figueres environment The quality of investment today equals the quality of energy tomorrow - equals the quality of life forever, it is not correct to think we are going to deal with climate change tomorrow. We have to deal with it today. Christiana Figueres energy I see a growing consensus that $100 billion will be the floor and not the ceiling. Christiana Figueres top-news What we do know is that there is extraordinary commitment on the part of( the) Chinese leadership to bring their emissions down, to reduce their consumption on coal, yes, of course they have huge coal consumption now ; that is their baseline, and they're working away from that and down from that. Christiana Figueres world The good news of all those climate change plans is that they actually do cut into the business-as-usual projection of greenhouse gas emissions as well as temperature, we are no longer heading to a world that would increase temperatures by 4, 5 or sometimes even 6 degrees( Celsius) according to some studies, which is what we had a few years ago. But, rather, with full implementation of these climate change plans, we could be heading to a future that would increase the global temperature by 2.7 or 3 degrees. Christiana Figueres science China is investing $ 80 billion into renewable energy, creating 3 million jobs( and) practically blanketing the Gobi Desert, because they want to take full advantage of their solar potential, together, China and India will be creating the opportunity and investing two times as much into solar and wind as the current global capacity in renewables …. Christiana Figueres science If the people's vehicle says we are going to make it accessible to everybody to get a (zero-emissions) car, we have a little revolution on the way, the people's vehicle. Christiana Figueres company-news Tesla is certainly opening up very, very new ground but Tesla, as we all know, is not exactly the peoples' vehicle. Christiana Figueres company-news The United States is actually playing catch up to China. Christiana Figueres company-news (Many have said) we need a carbon price and (investment) would be so much easier with a carbon price, but life is much more complex than that, i agree it would be more simple ... but it's not quite what we will have. Christiana Figueres environment Paris is not the final destination. It is, if anything, the departing station. Christiana Figueres energy Even if you do have a punitive system, that doesn't guarantee that it is going to be imposed or would lead to any better action. Christiana Figueres top-news We have a very different set of realities. Christiana Figueres environment I would call on you to devote urgent attention to scaling this action up and look forward to learning about progress later in the year. Christiana Figueres energy
