Fortunately poorer countries, such as China, are showing leadership and beginning to demonstrate to the world how to invest in low-carbon growth. — Nicholas Stern Copy Share Image
To claim the World Bank is just an extension of US foreign policy is just wrong. — Nicholas Stern Copy Share Image
Meat is a wasteful use of water and creates a lot of greenhouse gases. It puts enormous pressure on the world's resources.… — Nicholas Stern Copy Share Image
To claim the World Bank is just an extension of U.S. foreign policy is just wrong. — Nicholas Stern Copy Share Image
Climate change is a result of the greatest market failure the world has seen...We risk damages on a scale larger than the… — Nicholas Stern Copy Share Image
Climate change will affect the basic elements of life for people around the world - access to water, food production, health, and… — Nicholas Stern Copy Share Image
We can look back through ice-core data and see over 800,000 years, relationships between carbon dioxide and the temperature of the world.… — Nicholas Stern Copy Share Image
We will not overcome world poverty unless we manage climate change successfully. I've spent my life as a development economist, and it's… — Nicholas Stern Copy Share Image
...what we are talking about is extended world war...People would move on a massive scale. Hundreds of millions, probably billions of people… — Nicholas Stern Copy Share Image
If you look at all the serious scientists in the world, there is no big disagreement on the basics of this...it would… — Nicholas Stern Copy Share Image
Failing to curb the impact of climate change could damage the global economy on the scale of the Great Depression or the… — Nicholas Stern Copy Share Image
A rise of 5C would be a temperature the world has not seen for 30 to 50 million years. We've been around… — Nicholas Stern Copy Share Image
Climate change represents the greatest and widest-ranging market failure ever seen — Nicholas Stern Copy Share
If coal is going to be used, the only response - because it is the dirtiest of all fuels - is that we have… — Nicholas Stern Copy Share
How is it that, in the face of overwhelming scientific evidence, there are still some who would deny the dangers of climate change? Not… — Nicholas Stern Copy Share
This [climate change] is potentially so dangerous that we have to act strongly. Do we want to play Russian roulette with two bullets or… — Nicholas Stern Copy Share
There is still time to avoid the worst impacts of climate change, if we take strong action now. — Nicholas Stern Copy Share
The scientific evidence is now overwhelming: climate change presents very serious global risks, and it demands an urgent global response — Nicholas Stern Copy Share
Enlightened self-interest from those involved in hydrocarbons should lead to the support of technologies enabling the clean use of hydrocarbons, such as carbon capture… — Nicholas Stern Copy Share
The basic scientific conclusions on climate change are very robust and for good reason. The greenhouse effect is simple science: greenhouse gases trap heat,… — Nicholas Stern Copy Share
Climate change and global poverty are two sides of the same coin. Both challenges must be addressed together. If we fail on one, we… — Nicholas Stern Copy Share
We can look back through ice-core data and see over 800,000 years, relationships between carbon dioxide and the temperature of the world. So those… — Nicholas Stern Copy Share
Greenhouse gas emissions: Ultimately, stabilisation - at whatever level - requires that annual emissions be brought down to more than 80% below current levels — Nicholas Stern Copy Share
Unfortunately, the current pace of progress is not nearly rapid enough, with many rich industrialised countries being slow to make the transition to cleaner… — Nicholas Stern Copy Share
We run enormous risks and we know what kind of reductions of greenhouse gases are necessary to drastically reduce risks. Reducing emissions by half… — Nicholas Stern Copy Share
As an undergraduate, I did maths and physics. That doesn't make me a scientist. So I try to read and understand and talk to… — Nicholas Stern Copy Share
Climate change is a result of the greatest market failure the world has seen...We risk damages on a scale larger than the two world… — Nicholas Stern Copy Share
