Kyoto Protocol Quotes

• It doesn't matter what is true, it only matters what people believe is true.

  Paul Watson

  Believe, People, Historical

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• The common enemy of humanity is man. In searching for a new enemy to unite us, we came up with the idea that pollution, the threat of global warming, water shortages, famine and the like would fit the bill. ...The real enemy then is humanity itself.

  Aurelio Peccei

  Real, Men, Ideas

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• We've got to ride the global-warming issue. Even if the theory of global warming is wrong, we will be doing the right thing in terms of economic policy and environmental policy.

  Tim Wirth

  Issues, Environmental, Global Warming

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• The Kyoto Protocol...the first component of an authentic global governance.

  Jacques Chirac

  Energy, Firsts, Environment

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• The strategy behind the Kyoto Protocol has no grounding in economics or environmental policy.

  William Nordhaus

  Environmental, Strategy, Economics

  William D. Nordhaus, Joseph Boyer (2003). “Warming the World: Economic Models of Global Warming”, p.167, MIT Press

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• The U.S. withdrawal from the Kyoto protocol endangers the entire process.

  Laurent Fabius

  Withdrawal, Process, Kyoto

  "Anger over Bush energy plan". www.cnn.com. May 18, 2001.

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• On big issues like war in Iraq, but in many other issues they simply must be multilateral. There's no other way around. You have the instances like the global warming convention, the Kyoto protocol, when the U.S. went its own way.

  Hans Blix

  War, Iraq, Issues

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• It just seems to me that the world's kind of a mess, and the more messy it gets, the more interested I am in escapist fare. Having a good time is something that isn't about the war in Iraq or the Asian flu or the Kyoto protocol - things that are horribly depressing to consider in our real lives. I'm eager to get away from them.

  Eric Stoltz

  Depressing, Real, War

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• To put that into some perspective, when Bill Clinton and Al Gore had first taken the idea of the Kyoto Protocol up to the Congress, the United States Senate voted it down 95 to nothing.

  Christine Todd Whitman

  Taken, Ideas, Perspective

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• The seas need their own Kyoto Protocol.

  Enric Sala

  Kyoto, Sea, Needs

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• We think that the Kyoto protocol is a necessary document, necessary process. I am convinced that we will agree to disagree about substance.

  Goran Persson

  Thinking, Substance, Agree To Disagree

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• When the Kyoto Protocol enters into the force tomorrow, the world will take a significant and long-awaited first step towards stemming global warming. Instead of stepping forward as the world leader on climate change, however, the Bush Administration is clinging to the role of world obstructionist.

  Nancy Pelosi

  Long, Leader, Environmental

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• The UK is one of the only nations on earth that has actually met and even exceeded its goals under the Kyoto Protocol.

  Al Gore

  Kyoto, Goal, Earth

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• The Kyoto Protocol is a death pact, however strange it may sound, because its main aim is to strangle economic growth and economic activity in countries that accept the protocol's requirements.

  Andrey Illarionov

  Country, Growth, Sound

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• For the first time, humanity is instituting a genuine instrument Kyoto Protocol of global governance,"..."By acting together, by building this unprecedented instrument, the first component of an authentic global governance, we are working for dialogue and peace.

  Jacques Chirac

  Humanity, Acting, Together

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• It will be nearly impossible to slow warming appreciably without condemning much of the world to poverty unless energy sources that emit little or no carbon dioxide become competitive with conventional fossil fuels.

  Henry Sylvester Jacoby

  World, Littles, Fossils

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• We have received no single argument in favour of this document except political pressure. No link has been established between carbon dioxide emissions and climate change. No other objective facts have been presented in recent time. The IPCC's reports in 1990 and 1995 show it clearly.

  Andrey Illarionov

  Political, Climate, Links

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• In developing countries the situation could be even worse because developing countries do not have to count their emissions under the Kyoto Protocol. Private companies from industrialized nations will seek cheap carbon credits for their country in the developing world.

  Jennifer Morgan

  Country, Credit, World

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• The different policies reduce damages by only a modest amount. Indeed, one of the surprises is how little the policies affect the damages from global warming. The reasons are that, because there is so much inertia in the climate system and because the Protocol reduced the global temperature increase by only a fraction of a degree over the next century.

  Henry Sylvester Jacoby

  Littles, Next, Damage

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• In reality, Kyoto was a huge transfer of resources from the United States to the Third World, under the guise of environmental protection.

  Charles Krauthammer

  Reality, Environmental, World

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• The impact of the Kyoto Protocol on global temperature is quite modest, especially for the first century. The reduction in global mean temperature in the Annex I case relative to the reference in 2100 is 0.13ºC; this compares with a difference of 0.17ºC from the Kyoto Protocol calculated by Wigley. The temperature reduction in the optimal run is essentially the same as the Kyoto runs by the 22nd century.

  Henry Sylvester Jacoby

  Running, Mean, Differences

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• Three scenarios for post-Kyoto emissions reductions indicate that ... the long-term consequences are small... The influence of the Protocol would, furthermore, be undetectable for many decades.

  Tom Wigley

  Long, Three, Influence

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• It is becoming increasingly clear that the targets in the Kyoto Protocol cannot and will not be met on the established timetable in the United States and elsewhere.

  Eileen Claussen

  Target, Becoming, United States

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• Ideology on which the Kyoto Protocol is based, is a new form of totalitarian ideology, along with Marxism, Communism and socialism.

  Andrey Illarionov

  Global Warming, Socialism, Communism

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• Kyoto protocol is not a simple environmental issue, where you can say scientists are not unanimous. This is about international relations, this is about the economy, about trying to create a level playing field for big businesses throughout the world. You have to understand what is at stake, and that is why it is serious.

  Margot Wallstrom

  Simple, Issues, Environmental

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