Climate Change Quotes - Page 24

• We must turn the greatest collective challenge facing humankind today – climate change – into the greatest opportunity for common progress towards a sustainable future.

  Ban Ki-moon

  Opportunity, Challenges, Progress

  "Big Idea 2014: The Year for Climate Action" by Ban Ki-moon, www.un.org. December 10, 2013.

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• Let us take advantage of the opportunities presented by climate action and lay the foundations for a more prosperous and secure future for all

  Ban Ki-moon

  Opportunity, Climate Action, Foundation

  "Climate change affects us all. So what's stopping us joining forces to act on it?" by Ban Ki-moon, www.theguardian.com. May 6, 2014.

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• Unless a price can be put on carbon emissions that is high enough to force power companies and manufacturers to reduce their fossil-fuel use, there seems to be little chance of avoiding hugely damaging temperature increases

  Rajendra K. Pachauri

  Carbon Emissions, Littles, Fossils

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• An extremely effective instrument would be to put a price on carbon. It is only through the market that you can get a large enough and rapid enough response [to climate change]

  Rajendra K. Pachauri

  Climate, Would Be, Enough

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• We're not at the point of trying to stop global warming; it's too late for that. We're trying to keep it from becoming a complete and utter calamity

  Bill McKibben

  Trying, Becoming, Too Late

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• The evidence that climate change is happening is completely unequivocal... The later governments leave tackling climate change, the harder it will be to combat... The variation we are seeing in temperature or rainfall is double the rate of the average. That suggests that we are going to have more droughts, we are going to have more floods, we are going to have more sea surges and we are going to have more storms. These are the sort of changes that are going to affect us in quite a short timescale

  John Beddington

  Sea, Government, Average

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• Weather patterns over the next 20 or 30 years are going to be determined by the amount of CO2 that is up there now

  John Beddington

  Years, Weather, Next

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• In reality, those who deny climate change and demand a halt to emissions reduction and mitigation work, want us to take a huge gamble with the future of every human being on the planet, every future human being, our children and grand children, and every other living species

  Edward Davey

  Children, Reality, Demand

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• While we would not want to attribute every extreme weather event to climate change - the pattern is building and the costs are rising - the human costs and the financial costs

  Edward Davey

  Weather, Rising, Patterns

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• Getting the UK 'Climate Ready' has the potential to support economic growth for this country which should be a priority for all of us

  Rupert Ponsonby, 7th Baron de Mauley

  Country, Priorities, Support

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• No country can hide from the dangers of carbon pollution

  Barack Obama

  Country, Pollution, Danger

  Speech to UK parliament, www.cnn.com. May 25, 2011.

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• Climate change is the greatest threat to our common future. We have a very short period of time to tackle the problem before it becomes irreversible and out of control. A lot of progress has been made, but we must now go further, faster and turn targets into real change

  Chris Huhne

  Real, Progress, Climate

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• The road to climate stability is straight and the solutions simple, and yet scientists, economists, industrialists and politicians are busy making them complicated

  Satish Kumar

  Simple, Climate, Busy

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• There is no high-carbon future

  Peter Mandelson

  Carbon

  "High-speed rail plan part of strategy to reduce transport emissions" Alok Jha, www.theguardian.com. July 15, 2009.

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• A stable climate is the most fundamental resource of all. No one has yet built a civilisation in an unstable climate

  Tom Burke

  Climate, Fundamentals, Resources

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• Adapting to climate change: It really is time for action...we are on a never-ending road; this is with us for the rest of our natural lives

  Joan Ruddock

  Climate, Action, Natural

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• Climate change is not an environmental issue, but much more to do with security and economics

  Jonathon Porritt

  Issues, Environmental, Climate

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• Our changing climate has changed our politics.

  Hilary Benn

  Climate, Changed

  "Deal agreed in Bali climate talks". www.theguardian.com. December 15, 2007.

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• We are now running out of time, and the question now is not what is happening to the climate, but how bad will it be before the world starts doing enough?

  Jonathon Porritt

  Running, Climate, World

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• He (Jeremy Clarkson) is the last man standing on the beach commanding the glaciers' melt waters to go back

  A. A. Gill

  Beach, Men, Water

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• When you warn people about the dangers of climate change, they call you a saint. When you explain what needs to be done to stop it, they call you a communist.

  George Monbiot

  People, Climate, Saint

  "This crisis demands a reappraisal of who we are and what progress means" by George Monbiot, www.theguardian.com. December 3, 2007.

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• ...the world needs to face up to the challenge of climate change, and to do so now. It is clear that climate change poses an urgent challenge, not only a challenge that threatens the environment but also international peace and security, prosperity and development. And as the Stern report showed, the economic effects of climate change on this scale cannot be ignored, but the costs can be limited if we act early

  Gordon Brown

  Challenges, Faces, Climate

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• Climate change: I say the debate is over. We know the science, we see the threat and we know that the time for action is now

  Arnold Schwarzenegger

  Climate, Action, Debate

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• As you warm the climate, you basically raise the speed limit on hurricanes

  Kerry Emanuel

  Climate, Limits, Hurricanes

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• Each and every one of us can make changes in the way we live our lives and become part of the solution [to climate change]

  Al Gore

  Climate, Way, Making Changes

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