All Quotes

# climate — 28 quotes

CLIMATE

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

climateinvesting— Lowercarbon Capital launch
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We need to move fast, and we need to move at scale.

climate— Speed and Scale, 2021
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We cannot just stop emitting carbon. We need to actively remove what is already up there. That is not optional — it is physics.

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

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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.

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

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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.

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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.

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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.

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

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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.

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

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

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

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

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

climateinvesting— TED talk, 2019
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Tony Stark made me a billionaire in fiction. FootPrint Coalition is me trying to be useful in reality.

climateinvesting— FootPrint Coalition launch, 2019
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The fossil fuel industry is the most powerful industry in the world and it’s destroying the planet. Somebody has to fight them.

activismclimate— Rally speech, 2018
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Climate change is the biggest investment opportunity and the biggest threat of our lifetime. You can’t separate the two.

climateinvesting— CNBC interview, 2020
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I spent $340 million running for president and I’d do it again. Some things are worth more than money.

climateconviction— Post-campaign interview, 2020
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Climate change is the biggest market failure the world has ever seen. But it's also the biggest investment opportunity.

clean-energyclimate— Sydney Energy Forum, 2022
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We have to stop coal faster. Every year we delay costs us more — in climate damage, in energy costs, and in lost economic opportunity.

australiaclimate— AGL shareholder campaign statement, 2022
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When my kids ask me what I did when the world was on fire, I want to have a real answer.

climatelegacy— TED Talk, 2019
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Green hydrogen is going to change the world. And Australia is sitting on the best renewable energy resources on the planet to produce it.

australiaclimate— World Economic Forum, Davos, 2021
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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-investing— Builders Initiative Press Statement, 2022
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The quality of the ice has never been this bad, it's extraordinarily sad.

climateexploration— Thought Economics interview
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Weather is the largest uninsured risk on the planet, and that was the whole business.

climateclimate-corporation— Interview, 2019
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For me, energy transition is a big deal. So I imagine investing into renewable, investing into waste management, investing into carbon credit.

climateenergy-transition— Indonesia Business Post interview, 2023