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# climate28 quotes

CLIMATE

Climate is the single biggest investment opportunity of the next 30 years.

climateinvestingLowercarbon Capital launch

We need to move fast, and we need to move at scale.

climateSpeed and Scale, 2021

We cannot just stop emitting carbon. We need to actively remove what is already up there. That is not optional — it is physics.

People say direct air capture is too expensive. You know what is more expensive? Losing coastal cities to rising sea levels.

The fuel for our reactor comes from water. The entire planet is sitting on a nearly limitless energy source and we just need to build the machine to unlock it.

When we started in 2009, people thought we were crazy. Now Microsoft, Stripe, and Shopify are our customers. The world caught up.

Mammoth is ten times bigger than Orca. The next one will be ten times bigger than Mammoth. That is how you get to the scale the planet needs.

We raised $7 billion for a climate fund inside a PE firm. Five years ago people would have laughed. Now every major firm is copying us.

Climate is not a charity case. It is the largest reallocation of capital in human history. Trillions of dollars are moving and we intend to be on the right side of that flow.

Nextracker went from a TPG Rise Climate investment to a successful IPO. That is the model — real companies, real returns, real impact.

Animal farming is the most destructive technology on earth. It uses more land than anything else humans do. The solution is not to eat less meat — it is to make better meat from plants.

Climate change is not something you can argue about when you can literally see the glaciers melting from space, updated daily.

Bill Gates invested because he understands that the hardest problem in clean energy is multi-day storage. We solve it.

If this works it eliminates the last excuse for burning fossil fuels to keep the lights on during a cloudy windless week.

We will have the most serious resource crisis in human history. And the investment opportunity of a lifetime.

The same technologies that broke the environment can fix it. You have to fund the right ones.

climateinvestingTED talk, 2019

Tony Stark made me a billionaire in fiction. FootPrint Coalition is me trying to be useful in reality.

climateinvestingFootPrint Coalition launch, 2019

The fossil fuel industry is the most powerful industry in the world and it’s destroying the planet. Somebody has to fight them.

activismclimateRally speech, 2018

Climate change is the biggest investment opportunity and the biggest threat of our lifetime. You can’t separate the two.

climateinvestingCNBC interview, 2020

I spent $340 million running for president and I’d do it again. Some things are worth more than money.

climateconvictionPost-campaign interview, 2020

Climate change is the biggest market failure the world has ever seen. But it's also the biggest investment opportunity.

clean-energyclimateSydney Energy Forum, 2022

We have to stop coal faster. Every year we delay costs us more — in climate damage, in energy costs, and in lost economic opportunity.

australiaclimateAGL shareholder campaign statement, 2022

When my kids ask me what I did when the world was on fire, I want to have a real answer.

climatelegacyTED Talk, 2019

Green hydrogen is going to change the world. And Australia is sitting on the best renewable energy resources on the planet to produce it.

australiaclimateWorld Economic Forum, Davos, 2021

We are at a critical moment where the decisions we make about capital will determine whether the systems that support life on this planet remain intact.

climateimpact-investingBuilders Initiative Press Statement, 2022

The quality of the ice has never been this bad, it's extraordinarily sad.

climateexplorationThought Economics interview

Weather is the largest uninsured risk on the planet, and that was the whole business.

climateclimate-corporationInterview, 2019

For me, energy transition is a big deal. So I imagine investing into renewable, investing into waste management, investing into carbon credit.

climateenergy-transitionIndonesia Business Post interview, 2023