Carole Dieschbourg – Lux
- The question is not if we move, but the question is if we are able to move quick enough, if we are able to move together and create the right alliances of the willing — alliances of those people who take a holistic approach in order to integrate sustainability into financing systems and economics.
Jennifer Pryce – Lux
- The current system does not take in and does not fit the work we’re doing today. We need the system to change. Easy to say, harder to do.... the system is not built for this purpose.
Bernard Giraud – Lux
- Alignment between investors is key. It’s very difficult if you have people looking for money and nothing else and other stakeholders looking for Sustainable Development Goal improvement... We need to find the common ground.
Bill McKibben
- We need to be a downpour. We need to be a human flood over this next decade coming together in a peaceful way to wash away much of the old world and make room for what must now come next.
Hans loth – Lux
- We need to change some of the enablers out there, and one of them is banking... We really need to change the regulatory environment of banking on a global scale.
Karin Kemper
- We need blended knowledge, we need to learn from the work of others. Then we can move on to blended finance for landscape restoration.
Lina Dolores Pohl
- We need to convince our citizens that we need a restoration program. We are proving that restoration is a big issue, an urgent action that all actors should pay attention to.
Paola Agostini
- When I started working in forest and landscape about 20 years ago, only innovative capital like GEF was promoting links between production and conservation; but today is a very special day. Having the private and Banking sectors investing in sustainable landscape is a revolution.
Ellysar Baroudy
- The land use sector has suffered disproportionately from setting the bar so high and being unable to generate expected results. But I don’t give up. We don’t have any other option.
Charles Batte
- When restoration commitments are made, it is young people like me who will get excited and ready to begin planting but to do that we need to build trust with investors.
Ana Tejero Arando
- We need to show farmers we can restore through production, and produce through restoration.
Jennifer Pryce
- The challenge is to really capitalize on the financial infrastructure we have; we need to collaborate effectively, know our role and how to put that capital to work.
Robert Nasi
- We need to stop talking and thinking and acting like we will meet these targets, we will not. WE must all begin the work of adapting to a much warmer and uncertain global climate.