Natalia Komarova, Governor of the Khanti-Mansiysk – Yugra autonomous region : “You can propose grandiose projects - as we did in our region - and we invited citizens to contribute. They came up with their own initiatives and projects and agreed that the basis (of such projects) should be green growth."
Ligia Noronha, Assistant Secretary- General and Head of UNEP’s New York Office, on how a country's own level of #democracy can affect the ability to enact change: "The freedom we have and the way we express that freedom can affect others."