Environment

The ice is neither left nor right, it is neither Republican nor Democrat, it is simply melting. The consequences of the sea ice melting are enormous and will be felt everywhere from Texas to China.

Former President of Iceland (1996-2016)

The term Arctic itself is misleading. It sounds like a region. It is in fact a big part of the planet of continental size. If you add all the Arctic areas up – Alaska, Canada, Greenland, the Nordics, and Russia – it's almost the size of Africa. Imagine if it was only 30 years ago when we discovered Africa!

Former President of Iceland (1996-2016)

Going around the world thousands of times presents you with the depth, fragility, strength and richness of Earth; and gives you a sense of what 4.5 billion years actually means. I travelled with our Earth as it crossed the Solar System and watched as Winter and Summer swapped- it was like watching the world take one of 4.5 billion breaths.

Canadian Astronaut & International Space Station Commander

Seeing the Earth from space gives you an unfiltered understanding of it. Until you see the Earth from this vantage point, everything you knew about the planet was based on something that someone else had told you – based on their own filtered understanding and bias.

Canadian Astronaut & International Space Station Commander

Our disconnection from nature has led to such irreverence towards the earth, a kind of murderous environmental rampage, a collective matricide. We destroy the forests, we pollute the waters, we violate the earth to the point where environmental damage now threatens the long-term survival of our species.

Author of "A Return to Love" & Spiritual Activist

We mustn't focus exclusively on this threat, and it tends to be the case that the global elite does. I was at Davos in January 2020 and climate change was the agenda – and the pandemic had already begun! It was quite difficult to persuade people that there might be a nearer-term threat facing us than climate change.

British historian and author specializing in financial and military history

Subversive, ethical, ecological, political, humorous… this is how I see my duty as a designer.

Renowned French Industrial Designer & Architect Known for Innovative Product Design

The first thing to do for our ecology is not to use less electricity, it's to cease buying things that are not useful.

Renowned French Industrial Designer & Architect Known for Innovative Product Design

Arguably, the biggest challenge we face right now as humans and as a society is climate change and the issues associated with our negative impact on the environment. So, this has become a key element of my business endeavours along with all surrounding technologies that help tackle this issue.

Former Formula 1 World Champion, won 2016 title with Mercedes

I am a father of two small children. When you have children, you have to ask yourself what the world will look like in the next 80-100 years, because people get that old these days if everything goes well. Last but not least, as a father I see it as my responsibility to think about my actions and my motives.

Former Formula 1 World Champion, won 2016 title with Mercedes

Wine making is also alchemy, not everything is controllable – you are dealing with nature. There's a savage element to all of this. A great winemaker is an artist.

Actor best known for Jurassic Park and The Piano films

Sustainability is a state of mind – every day when my team are working, they must think about sustainability. We want to be 100% sustainable by 2030 – how can you talk about 2060 or 2080? The people making the promises will be dead by then. We must act now.

Founder and Chairman of Diesel fashion brand and Only The Brave Group

Fashion has always been a linear business terms of production, consumption and so-on. We need to move it from linear to circular to make it more sustainable.

40% of the total number of products bought in fashion eCommerce are never used, what a total waste.

Not only is it your responsibility as a business to look after your people, environment, community and world.... But if you don't have these kinds of conversations? Shame on you.

Founder and CEO of Chobani Greek Yogurt Company

We're heading to a world where all our energy is derived from the sun and from renewables, a world where we will have a squanderable abundance of energy. There's 6,000 times more energy hitting the surface of the Earth than we consume as a species.

Founder of X Prize Foundation & Singularity University