Tony Blair Quotes About Climate Change

Quotes about: Climate Change

• Global warming is too serious for the world any longer to ignore its danger or split into opposing factions on it.

  Tony Blair

  World, Splits, Politics

  Labour Party Conference Speech in Brighton, www.theguardian.com. September 27, 2005.

• Climate change is probably the greatest long-term challenge facing the human race.

  Tony Blair

  Race, Long, Challenges

  "Climate Change: The UK Programme 2006". Book by Great Britain: Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, March 28, 2006.

• There is good evidence that last year's European heat wave was influenced by global warming. It resulted in 26,000 premature deaths and cost $13.5bn.

  Tony Blair

  Years, Energy, Cost

  Tony Blair's Speech on the Environment and the 'Urgent Issue' of Climate Change, www.theguardian.com. September 15, 2004.

• Climate change is the world's greatest environmental challenge. It is now plain that the emission of greenhouse gases, associated with industrialization and economic growth...is causing global warming at a rate that is unsustainable.

  Tony Blair

  Challenges, Growth, Environmental

• All new schools...should be models for sustainable development: showing every child in the classroom and the playground how smart building and energy use can help tackle global warming...Sustainable development will not just be a subject in the classroom: it will be in its bricks and mortar and the way the school uses and even generates its own power.

  Tony Blair

  Children, Smart, School

• We need to develop the new green industrial revolution that develops the new technologies that can confront and overcome the challenge of climate change; and that above all can show us not that we can avoid changing our behaviour but we can change it in a way that is environmentally sustainable.

  Tony Blair

  Technology, Challenges, Overcoming

  Tony Blair's Speech on the Environment and the 'Urgent Issue' of Climate Change, www.theguardian.com. September 15, 2004.

• If what the science tells us about climate change is correct, then unabated it will result in catastrophic consequences for our world.

  Tony Blair

  Our World, Climate, Results

  Tony Blair's Speech on the Environment and the 'Urgent Issue' of Climate Change, www.theguardian.com. September 15, 2004.

• We can debate this or that aspect of climate change, but the reality is that most people now accept our climate is indeed subject to change as a result of greenhouse gas emissions.

  Tony Blair

  Change, Reality, People

• A challenge so far-reaching in its impact and irreversible in its destructive power, that it alters radically human existence... There is no doubt that the time to act is now.

  Tony Blair

  Impact, Challenges, Doubt

  Tony Blair's Speech on the Environment and the 'Urgent Issue' of Climate Change, www.theguardian.com. September 15, 2004.

• The blunt truth about the politics of climate change is that no country will want to sacrifice its economy in order to meet this challenge.

  Tony Blair

  Change, Country, Sacrifice

  Tony Blair's address to the the 2005 G8 climate change summit in London, as reported in "Blair signals shift over climate change" by David Adam, www.theguardian.com. November 2, 2005.

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