Patricia Espinosa Quotes

"Transnational organized crime does not recognize any borders."

"The ability of communities to meet their most basic needs - food, water, energy, sanitation - is threatened by climate change."

"As each country looks to meet their emissions reduction, energy efficiency, or renewable energy goals, they will look to cities as places where transformational change can make the most difference."

"The impacts of extreme weather are already creating chaos."

"Among the laundry list of threats to our world, climate change more often than not makes these challenges worse."

"National governments alone cannot deliver lasting prosperity without a transformation of social and economic development that seeks to minimise risk and seize the opportunity we have."

"There is only one possible future for humanity, and that is a sustainable one."

"All action to address climate change is an inseparable and integrated part of the whole plan, and the leadership and commitment of all governments remains central to success."

"More climate-friendly, coordinated laws, policies, and incentives are needed."

"Achieving the aims and ambitions of the Paris Agreement are not a given. The world needs to understand the urgency and complexity of what the international community has embarked upon."

"Climate neutrality means a situation where the world can naturally absorb the emissions that will continue to be produced in our societies."

"To be able to transform societies and economies to low-carbon ones was an amazing challenge. To influence and to facilitate such an important transformation in the world would be like witnessing something of industrial revolution proportions."

"I have children; I hope to be a grandmother one day."

"India is a good example of a country that has embarked into wind and solar energy production and creating jobs in it. Other countries can learn from India's experience."

"The economy of the future has been aligned with the climate agenda. Even the competitiveness of companies will depend on how resource efficient they are."

"A lot of U.S. businesses are really going into the agenda of sustainability, and some are making their own commitments in emissions reductions in their own operations."

"We will need to reach out to all those actors - to governments, to civil societies, to businesses - and help in mobilizing them to help in this fight against climate change."

"In the case of the Paris Agreement, if we want to have full compliance with the Paris Agreement, we need not only action by governments; we need the action by all of society."

"People who have grown up in a world where this was not a concern and suddenly start hearing about climate change - it's very difficult. It's a very, very abstract concept. So we need to work on making it very educational and very, very clear, in very simple terms."

"We have to be reminded that we still live in a world that relies a lot on fossil fuels, and that transition to new and renewable sources is not always and in all cases possible from one day to the next."

"We need to really get very serious about a transition toward new and renewable sources of energy."

"Cities are where the climate battle will be won or lost."

"The impacts of climate change are not going to get better; they are going to get worse."

"Climate action in cities is the key that unlocks a low emissions and resilient future."

"The risk to cities from climate impacts carries great social and economic cost and, of course, the loss of human lives."

"The world is becoming smaller every day."