"This is not growth for its own sake. It does matter, but this is a new form, one that breaks the relationship between output activity on the one hand and destruction and the environment on the other. You ain't going to get to net zero by having zero output or zero population. That's not a good route, but you can get to net zero by breaking that relationship. And the young people demand it of us."

— Nicholas Stern, IG Patel Professor of Economics and Government, London School of Economics

"I am from Sudan and in Sudan, only 30% of the population have access to electricity and I know that the government has no capacity to actually access financing. We have already a debt of 64 billion, I think, and the only answer for that is to have policies that actually enable not only the public sector but also the private sector to access it and have projects for renewable energy access for people who don't have access to that."

— Nisreen Elsaim, Chair, UN Secretary-General’s Youth Advisory Group on Climate Change