The transition to a low-carbon economy will be one of the defining issues of the 21st century. This plan sets out a… — Ed Miliband Copy Share Image
The fate of hundreds of thousands of species on this planet may be decided in the next decade. To slow the rush… — Eban Goodstein Copy Share Image
It is a fact that, up to seven million people a year are dying from fossil fuel pollution. It is a fact… — Mark Ruffalo Copy Share Image
I want to tell mayors, county chiefs and heads of big companies: don't just chase GDP growth; don't chase the biggest profits… — Chen Guangbiao Copy Share Image
The fuel in the earth will be exhausted in a thousand or more years, and its mineral wealth, but man will find… — John Burroughs Copy Share Image
Tipping points are so dangerous because if you pass them, the climate is out of humanity's control: if an ice sheet disintegrates… — James Hansen Copy Share Image
If we take all this actions and if it turns out not be true, we have reduced pollution and have better ways… — Tony Blair Copy Share Image
Climate is a global issue. Coal is still the energy that is being used more than anything else to make electricity. The… — Ian Bremmer Copy Share Image
Cap the well, yes. Clear up the mess, yes. Make compensation - yes, absolutely. But would it be right to have legislation… — David Cameron Copy Share Image
The discussion about energy options tends to be an intensely emotional, polarised, mistrustful, and destructive one. Every option is strongly opposed: the… — David J. C. MacKay Copy Share Image
Winter regularly takes many more lives than any heat wave: 25,000 to 50,000 each year die in Britain from excess cold. Across… — Bjorn Lomborg Copy Share Image
The difference between the Liberals and the Conservatives is that the Conservatives are being honest that what they're planning to do is… — Annamie Paul Copy Share Image
You think the weather is weird now? Just wait. A new MIT study, just published in a peer-reviewed journal, projects that the… — Jeff Goodell Copy Share Image
As governor, I would seek to ensure that Massachusetts has access to a balanced portfolio of low-cost energy that doesn't put us… — Charlie Baker Copy Share Image
The Clean Power Plan will significantly boost clean energy as a share of the United States' energy mix and give states increased… — Brian Deese Copy Share Image
There's a character I played in 'Love in a Cold Climate' - very like my mother. I asked if I could wear… — Celia Imrie Copy Share Image
In my book Radical Reform I made it clear that we cannot talk about the environment or ecology if we don't also… — Tariq Ramadan Copy Share Image
Public discourse has been polluted now for decades by corporate-funded disinformation - not just with climate change but with a host of… — Michael E. Mann Copy Share Image
...probably the single-most concrete and substantive thing an American, young American, could do to lower our carbon footprint is not turning off… — Andrew Revkin Copy Share Image
I have run large organizations, I know what it takes to create a healthy business climate, and I have more experience than… — Meg Whitman Copy Share Image
I've often heard it said that there's a consensus of thousands of scientists on the global warming issue and that humans are… — John Christy Copy Share Image
Ethiopia has a robust response, designing development policies with a view to mitigating the impact of climate change. I am proud to… — Tedros Adhanom Copy Share Image
We can learn from all around the world. Germany, particularly, has been successful with rooftop solar generation. Other countries like Norway and… — Piyush Goyal Copy Share Image
On a per capita basis, Britain is responsible for more of the carbon dioxide now in the atmosphere than any other nation… — James Hansen Copy Share Image
Eventually we'll use a CO2 tax offset by a reduction in taxes elsewhere alongside a cap-and-trade plan, but the degree of difficulty… — Al Gore Copy Share Image
When coal came into the picture, it took about 50 or 60 years to displace timber. Then, crude oil was found, and… — Rex Tillerson Copy Share Image
(On the energy radiated by the Sun) It's four hundred million million million million watts. That is a million times the power… — Brian Cox Copy Share Image
The irony is that one of the things people want to solve climate change is more market - more price on carbon… — Bill McKibben Copy Share Image
Climate change, in some regions, has aggravated conflict over scarce land, and could well trigger large-scale migration in the decades ahead. And… — Ban Ki-moon Copy Share Image
It's hard to get a movie made about characters these days. We're in a climate where, unless it's based on a toy… — Doug Liman Copy Share Image
As we work to expand our supplies of energy, we should also recognize that we must balance those efforts with our concern… — Richard M. Nixon Copy Share Image
Positive deviance means doing the right thing for sustainability, despite being surrounded by the wrong institutional structures, the wrong processes and stubbornly… — Sara Parkin Copy Share Image
Actually, climate change is really about the wellbeing of people. It is not a very vague concept or a vague problem that… — Patricia Espinosa Copy Share Image
Building on our strong track record of supporting developing countries, including in areas like climate justice, human rights, gender and education, Ireland… — Enda Kenny Copy Share Image
I talk to fashion designers and say I want some money to save the rainforest, and they say, 'Oh, I agree with… — Vivienne Westwood Copy Share Image
The development of oil and gas resources depends more on capital than labour, and exporting oil and gas neither generates maximum returns… — Khalid A. Al-Falih Copy Share Image
If you didn't auction the [CO2] permits, it would represent the largest corporate welfare program that has ever been enacted in the… — Peter R. Orszag Copy Share Image
There are a lot of different ways of building a prosperous society, and some of them use much less energy than others.… — Alex Steffen Copy Share Image
Companies like Husk Power Systems are working to impact positively not only the environment, but to ensure that someday everyone, including the… — Jacqueline Novogratz Copy Share Image
It seems like every week we are considering bills that would make it harder to limit the amount of carbon we are… — Mark Pocan Copy Share Image
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