The simple fact is that the world is not paying for the services the forests provide. At the moment, they are worth more dead than alive-for soya, for beef, for palm oil and for logging, feeding the demand from other countries. ... I think we need to be clear that the drivers of rainforest destruction do not originate in the rainforest nations, but in the more developed countries which, unwittingly or not, have caused climate change.

There's nothing like a jolly good disaster to get people to start doing something.

If you chuck away too many things, you end up discovering there was value in them.

One of the main reasons for the conflict in Syria, and the terrorism that it's spawned, is climate change and drought.

If your children want to alter society, listen to their reasons and the idealism behind them. Don't crush them with some clever remark straight away.

It is vitally important that we can continue to say, with absolute conviction, that organic farming delivers the highest quality, best-tasting food, produced without artificial chemicals or genetic modification, and with respect for animal welfare and the environment, while helping to maintain the landscape and rural communities.

We should be treating, I think, the whole issue of climate change and global warming with a far greater degree of priority than I think is happening now.