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We are totally on the way of smart design of cities. It is not science fiction. If you look for examples of any of this, it's all already underway.

— Christiana Figueres Interview with NPR (2020)

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People reducing their emissions – by flying less, eating less meat and using clean energy, for example – is important.

Interview with The Guardian (2020)

Those corporations that continue to invest in new fossil fuel exploration, new fossil fuel exploitation, are really in flagrant breach of their fiduciary duty because the science is abundantly clear that this is something we can no longer do.

We are now at the most critical crossroads in the history of humanity.

Interview with NPR (2020)

Whatever we hold as being possible, and whatever values and principles we live by, determine the actions that we take.

Interview with The Guardian (2020)

We're not victims of the past; we are creators and creators of the future.

Interview with NPR (2020)

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