For the sake of our children and our future, we must do more to combat climate change. — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
We have known for decades that our survival depends on finding new sources of energy. Yet we import more oil today than… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
My plan will continue to reduce the carbon pollution that is heating our planet because climate change is not a hoax. — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
The hard truth is carbon pollution has built up in our atmosphere for decades now. And even if we Americans do our… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
Few challenges facing America and the world are more urgent than combating climate change. The science is beyond dispute and the facts… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
I believe that the U.S. can and should be a global leader in the development of alternative energy sources... — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
There is enough oil out there for world demand. It is true that a lot of what's driving oil prices up right… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
I'm about to embark on what may be as important as an initiative as anything I do as President, trying to nudge… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
Unlike my opponent, I will not let oil companies write this country's energy plan, or endanger our coastlines, or collect another $4… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
By some estimates, the oil you recently discovered off the shores of Brazil could amount to twice the reserves we have in… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
Every three weeks, we bring online as much solar power as we did in all of 2008...That’s why, over the past six… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
We are convinced, as some of you may be convinced, that changing the way we produce and use energy is essential to… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
This is not some distant problem of the future. This is a problem that is affecting Americans right now. Whether it means… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
When BP was not moving fast enough on claims, we told BP to set aside $20 billion in a fund - managed… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
All across the world, ...increasingly dangerous weather patterns and devastating storms are abruptly putting an end to the long-running debate over whether… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
The good news is that the Paris Agreement is not just a bilateral agreement between the United States and some other country.… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
Young people: I understand this is important to you, but as you be thinking about climate change, the economy and jobs, war… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
For the sake of our children and our future, we must do more to combat climate change. Now, it's true that no… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
We, the people, still believe that our obligations as Americans are not just to ourselves, but to all posterity. We will respond… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
When Americans are called on to innovate, that's what we do - whether it's making more fuel-efficient cars or more fuel-efficient appliances,… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
I know that there are those who disagree with the overwhelming scientific evidence on climate change. But here's the thing -- even… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
Today, about 40 percent of America's carbon pollution comes from our power plants. There are no federal limits to the amount those… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
The issue of climate change is one that we ignore at our own peril. There may still be disputes about exactly how… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
If we [American nation] are only thinking about tomorrow or the next day and not thinking about 10 years from now, we're… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
Climate change poses a direct threat to the infrastructure of America that we need to stay competitive in this 21st-century economy. — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
I believe, in the words of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., that there is such a thing as being too late, and… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
The shift to a cleaner energy economy wont happen overnight, and it will require tough choices along the way. But the debate… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
The nation that leads the clean energy economy will be the nation that leads the global economy. — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
For decades, we've been told that it doesn't make economic sense to switch to renewable energy. Today, that's no longer true. — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
To break our addiction to oil is one of the greatest challenges that our generation will have to master. — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
Unless we free ourselves from a dependence on these fossil fuels... we are condemning future generations to global catastrophe — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
Climate change constitutes a serious threat to global security, an immediate risk to our national security, and, make no mistake, it will… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
There's one issue that will define the contours of this century more dramatically than any other, and that is the urgent and… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
Now, as the world's largest economy and as the world's second largest emitter, America bears our responsibility to address climate change, and… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
Some may still deny the overwhelming judgment of science, but none can avoid the devastating impact of raging fires, and crippling drought,… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
What the Paris agreement now does is say to China and India and other countries that are potentially polluting, come on board.… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
I hope we can all agree that, instead of continuing to subsidize yesterday's energy sources. We need to invest in tomorrow's. — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
The US and Australia have a lot in common. One of the things we have in common is we produce a lot… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
What we can be scientifically certain of is that our continued use of fossil fuels is pushing us to a point of… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
So here's what I want you to know, and here's what I want all our men and women in uniform to know: Because of… — Barack Obama Copy Share
As opposed to getting into arguments about, well, these folks have been treated fairly so now we're going to be doing things that, very… — Barack Obama Copy Share
What we've said to the girls is: 'If you guys ever decide that you're going to get a tattoo, then mommy and me will… — Barack Obama Copy Share
All of us take offense to anyone who reaps the rewards of living in America without taking on the responsibilities of living in America.… — Barack Obama Copy Share
The world is complicated and full of grays, but there's still truth there to be found. — Barack Obama Copy Share
That is another theme in the book [Dreams from My Father]. How do we exercise more empathy in our public discourse? How do we… — Barack Obama Copy Share
I can say across Europe that many principles that have been taken for granted here around free speech, and around civil liberties and an… — Barack Obama Copy Share
So Americans understand the costs of war. Yet as a country, we will never tolerate our security being threatened, nor stand idly by when… — Barack Obama Copy Share
I want to thank the Greek people publicly for their humanitarian response to the crisis of so many migrants and refugees seeking safety in… — Barack Obama Copy Share
We had a farewell dinner for some of my senior staff, and generally everybody likes to talk about how cool I was. — Barack Obama Copy Share
It's good to get fresh legs in [the White house]. I think that it refreshes our democracy. — Barack Obama Copy Share
Believe it or not, entertainment is part of our American diplomacy, it is part of what makes us exceptional, part of what makes us… — Barack Obama Copy Share