Any discussion of investment or putting monetary value on the environment must start with the populations who rely on those resources.

Learn to forgive yourself and move on.

When a child is starving, a family may not be able to think about long-term sustainability or damage to ecosystems that support endangered species.

No matter how you measure it, women and girls bear the brunt of poverty. But it's also clear that women are also our greatest hope for ending it. We at CARE have long believed that if you change the life of a girl or woman, you don't just change that individual, you change her family and then her community.

Any discussion of investment or putting monetary value on the environment must start with the populations who rely on those resources.

What keeps me motivated is going out to the field and seeing programs that incorporate a focus on both people and the planet, and seeing how mutually reinforcing they can really be.

The environmental community has an opportunity to create and leverage partnerships with the development community on social issues, rather than trying to develop new expertise of its own.