Adopting and promoting sustainable production practices require concerted effort, something which in practice is too often missing or insufficient. Making this shift at the scale required demands forward-looking leadership in the public and private sectors alike.

Someone's got to break the glass ceiling, and once it's broken, everybody else comes clamouring up behind.

Equity, dignity, happiness, sustainability - these are all fundamental to our lives but absent in the GDP.

People are optimistic about the future.

No country will reach its full potential if its female citizens do not enjoy full equality.

Never look back. Move on. Aim high. Etc.

Grounded in international human rights, gender equality doesn’t just improve the lives of individual women, girls, and their families; it makes economic sense, strengthens democracy, and enables long-term sustainable progress.