We have to find climate-friendly ways of encouraging economic growth. The good news is we think they exist.

When you're working on development issues, optimism is not always based on rational analysis, often it is a moral choice.

Unless you invest in people, you are not going to see growth in the long term, the medium term, and maybe even the short term.

There will be water and food fights everywhere.

We have to find climate-friendly ways of encouraging economic growth. The good news is we think they exist.

If we do not act to curb climate change immediately, we will leave our children and grandchildren an unrecognizable planetIt is the poor, those least responsible for climate change and least able to afford adaptation, who would suffer the most.

Water and sanitation has not had the same kind of champion that global health, and even education, have had.