More countries have understood that women's equality is a prerequisite for development.

I think it is not just the U.N. speaking, but the concept of a third party, a third party to a conflict speaking out. You know, sometimes saying, 'Stop, this is enough. This cannot be allowed to happen,' gives the victims and the people who are caught in that situation courage, encouragement, support.

Iraq has a new opportunity to comply with all these relevant resolutions of the Security Council.

The question is the morning after. What sort of Iraq do we wake up to after the bombing? What happens in the region? What impact could it have? These are questions leaders I have spoken to have posed.

One thing we do know about the threat of climate change is that the cost of adjustment only grows the longer it's left unaddressed.

What is true environmentalism? I think it's environmental stewardship - not prohibition.

All our environmental problems become easier to solve with fewer people and harder - and ultimately impossible to solve - with ever more people.

I don't need to be lectured by the Pope about climate change.