It would be good for us Africans to accept ourselves as we are and recapture some of the positive aspects of our culture.

There will always be people who think that you have ambitions.

I'm sure that many people who are involved in an environmental effort ... they will be pretty much encouraged by this recognition.

The women of the Green Belt Movement have learned about the causes and the symptoms of environmental degradation. They have begun to appreciate that they, rather than their government, ought to be the custodians of the environment.

In Kenya women are the first victims of environmental degradation, because they are the ones who walk for hours looking for water, who fetch firewood, who provide food for their families.

The issue of carbon is one area where we really need to work together and if people don't have the technology they need, that technology needs to be made available and affordable.

When you know who you are you are free.