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Top 20 Christiana Figueres Quotes (2025 Update)

Christiana Figueres Quote: “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.”

1. “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.”

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Christiana Figueres Quote: “Quite frankly, there is no answer to climate change without substantially, dramatically, increasing the amount of renewable energy in the global energy system.”

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

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Christiana Figueres Quote: “We cannot ask others to do what we have not done ourselves.”

3. “We cannot ask others to do what we have not done ourselves.”

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Christiana Figueres Quote: “For change to become transformational, our change in mindset must manifest in our actions.”

4. “For change to become transformational, our change in mindset must manifest in our actions.”

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Christiana Figueres Quote: “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.”

5. “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.”

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Christiana Figueres Quote: “Second, I believe in human ingenuity – that when we decide on a task to be done, no matter how daunting it may seem at the beginning, we are able to unleash human ingenuity and human innovative capacity that was unknown, and takes us to a solution.”

6. “Second, I believe in human ingenuity – that when we decide on a task to be done, no matter how daunting it may seem at the beginning, we are able to unleash human ingenuity and human innovative capacity that was unknown, and takes us to a solution.”

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Christiana Figueres Quote: “Stubborn optimism needs to motivate you daily; you always need to bear in mind why you feel the future is worth fighting for.”

7. “Stubborn optimism needs to motivate you daily; you always need to bear in mind why you feel the future is worth fighting for.”

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Christiana Figueres Quote: “We can no longer afford to assume that addressing climate change is the sole responsibility of national or local governments, or corporations or individuals. This is an everyone-everywhere mission in which we all must individually and collectively assume responsibility.”

8. “We can no longer afford to assume that addressing climate change is the sole responsibility of national or local governments, or corporations or individuals. This is an everyone-everywhere mission in which we all must individually and collectively assume responsibility.”

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Christiana Figueres Quote: “Consumerism traps us into thinking we can purchase personality.”

9. “Consumerism traps us into thinking we can purchase personality.”

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Christiana Figueres Quote: “Denying climate change is tantamount to saying you don’t believe in gravity. The science of climate change is not a belief, a religion, or a political ideology. It presents the facts that are measurable and verifiable. Just as gravity exerts its force on all of us, whether we believe in it or not, climate change is already affecting us all no matter where we were born or where we live.”

10. “Denying climate change is tantamount to saying you don’t believe in gravity. The science of climate change is not a belief, a religion, or a political ideology. It presents the facts that are measurable and verifiable. Just as gravity exerts its force on all of us, whether we believe in it or not, climate change is already affecting us all no matter where we were born or where we live.”

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Christiana Figueres Quote: “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.”

11. “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.”

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Christiana Figueres Quote: “We are just about to cross the 400 parts per million threshold.”

12. “We are just about to cross the 400 parts per million threshold.”

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Christiana Figueres Quote: “I still do not understand why we don’t have people on the streets every single day raising their voices for climate.”

13. “I still do not understand why we don’t have people on the streets every single day raising their voices for climate.”

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Christiana Figueres Quote: “History has shown that when approximately 3.5 percent of the population participates in nonviolent protest, success becomes inevitable.102 No nonviolent protest has ever failed to achieve its aims once it reached that threshold of participation. In the UK, this would be 2.3 million people. In the United States, 11 million.”

14. “History has shown that when approximately 3.5 percent of the population participates in nonviolent protest, success becomes inevitable.102 No nonviolent protest has ever failed to achieve its aims once it reached that threshold of participation. In the UK, this would be 2.3 million people. In the United States, 11 million.”

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Christiana Figueres Quote: “Three centuries ago Jonathan Swift wrote, “Falsehood flies, and truth comes limping after it.”21 How prophetic this turned out to be. A recent analysis by MIT shows that on Twitter lies spread on average six times faster than truth, and that truth never reaches the same level of penetration.22 Social media is an engine for the production and dissemination of lies.”

15. “Three centuries ago Jonathan Swift wrote, “Falsehood flies, and truth comes limping after it.”21 How prophetic this turned out to be. A recent analysis by MIT shows that on Twitter lies spread on average six times faster than truth, and that truth never reaches the same level of penetration.22 Social media is an engine for the production and dissemination of lies.”

— Christiana Figueres

Christiana Figueres Quote: “Textile production is second only to the oil industry for pollution. It adds more greenhouse gases to our atmosphere than all international flights and maritime shipping combined.”

16. “Textile production is second only to the oil industry for pollution. It adds more greenhouse gases to our atmosphere than all international flights and maritime shipping combined.”

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Christiana Figueres Quote: “Melting permafrost is also releasing ancient microbes that today’s humans have never been exposed to – and as a result have no resistance.”

17. “Melting permafrost is also releasing ancient microbes that today’s humans have never been exposed to – and as a result have no resistance.”

— Christiana Figueres

Christiana Figueres Quote: “Anger that sinks into despair is powerless to make a change. Anger that evolves into conviction is unstoppable.”

18. “Anger that sinks into despair is powerless to make a change. Anger that evolves into conviction is unstoppable.”

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Christiana Figueres Quote: “If democracy is to survive and thrive into the twenty-first century, climate change is the one big test that it cannot fail.”

19. “If democracy is to survive and thrive into the twenty-first century, climate change is the one big test that it cannot fail.”

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Christiana Figueres Quote: “All too often in the face of a task, we move quickly to “doing” without first reflecting on “being” – what we personally bring to the task, as well as what others might. And the most important thing we can bring is our state of mind.”

20. “All too often in the face of a task, we move quickly to “doing” without first reflecting on “being” – what we personally bring to the task, as well as what others might. And the most important thing we can bring is our state of mind.”

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Christiana Figueres Quote: “The planet will survive, in changed form no doubt, but it will survive. The question is whether we will be here to witness it.”

21. “The planet will survive, in changed form no doubt, but it will survive. The question is whether we will be here to witness it.”

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Christiana Figueres Quote: “With our support, regeneration can become the predominant direction of the future evolution of this planet.”

22. “With our support, regeneration can become the predominant direction of the future evolution of this planet.”

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Christiana Figueres Quote: “The days of valuing how quickly we can dig stuff up and turn it into trash have to come to an end, not as a matter of ideology or policy but but as a a matter of survival.”

23. “The days of valuing how quickly we can dig stuff up and turn it into trash have to come to an end, not as a matter of ideology or policy but but as a a matter of survival.”

— Christiana Figueres

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