The urgency for reducing climate emissions is too great. We must take our collective experience and use it toward making green design… — Ian Shapiro Copy Share Image
Looking back, I underestimated the risks. The planet and the atmosphere seem to be absorbing less carbon than we expected, and emissions… — Nicholas Stern Copy Share Image
I have advocated an entirely different approach than cap and tax, which would be worldwide in application and which emphasizes technology as… — Jim Sensenbrenner Copy Share Image
You should be attacking the carbon emissions, period, and whether it's cap-and-trade or carbon tax or whatever, that's the realm in which… — Joe Biden Copy Share Image
If the EPA continues unabated, jobs will be shipped to China and India as energy costs skyrocket. Most of the media attention… — Fred Upton Copy Share Image
Temperature measurements in the arctic suggest that it was just as warm there in the 1930's...before most greenhouse gas emissions. Don't you… — Roy Spencer Copy Share Image
We run enormous risks and we know what kind of reductions of greenhouse gases are necessary to drastically reduce risks. Reducing emissions… — Nicholas Stern Copy Share Image
The environmental benefits of hydrogen are also outstanding. When used as an energy source, hydrogen produces no emissions besides water. Zero polluting… — Dan Lipinski Copy Share Image
Indeed the three policy pillars of the neoliberal age-privatization of the public sphere, deregulation of the corporate sector, and the lowering of… — Naomi Klein Copy Share Image
Kyoto is likely to yield far less than the targeted emissions reduction. That failure will most likely be papered over with creative… — Henry Sylvester Jacoby Copy Share Image
It is impossible to talk about slowing climate change without talking about reducing CO2 emissions. Equally, it is impossible to talk about… — Cary Fowler Copy Share Image
We know that things like energy independence, getting off oil, getting out of the Middle East, and creating jobs and economic development… — Ted Nordhaus Copy Share Image
Climate change is a global problem. The planet is warming because of the growing level of greenhouse gas emissions from human activity.… — Malcolm Turnbull Copy Share Image
The international equity question arises from the costs of climate change itself and mitigation varying greatly across countries. It is affected by… — Ross Garnaut Copy Share Image
With regard to Banks, they have taken too deep and too wide a root in social transactions, to be got rid of… — James Madison Copy Share Image
Centuries-old habitats such as coral gardens are destroyed in an instant by bottom trawls, pulverized by weighted nets into barren plains. And… — Ted Danson Copy Share Image
It is manifestly in the interest of the United States to deal with the very real threat that climate change poses. And… — Susan Rice Copy Share Image
We face the gravest threat that civilization has ever confronted. It's global in nature and requires a global solution. Increased CO2 emissions… — Al Gore Copy Share Image
I hope that in future Congresses there will reemerge a recognition that climate change is a reality, that our policies to meet… — Jeff Bingaman Copy Share Image
Consider the perverse effect cap and trade has on altruistic actions. Say you decide to buy a small, high-efficiency car. That reduces… — James Hansen Copy Share Image
The US needs a cap and trade system with auctioning of licenses for emissions rights. The revenues from these auctions can be… — George Soros Copy Share Image
Without international participation, jobs and emissions will simply shift overseas to countries that require few, if any, environmental protections, harming the global… — Fred Upton Copy Share Image
Switching to light-coloured roofs and roadways would have the equivalent effect on greenhouse gas emissions to taking one billion cars off the… — Steven Chu Copy Share Image
In developing countries the situation could be even worse because developing countries do not have to count their emissions under the Kyoto… — Jennifer Morgan Copy Share Image
If the goal is to lower emissions, that's disconnected to most people. If the goal is to save taxpayers' money, now the… — Mark Begich Copy Share Image
Goals and caps on carbon emissions are practically worthless, if coal emissions continue, because of the exceedingly long lifetime of carbon dioxide… — James Hansen Copy Share Image
Whether it is to reduce our carbon-dioxide emissions or to prepare for when the coal and oil run out, we have to… — Martin Rees Copy Share Image
I think the deeper truth is that the Kyoto Protocols will not be followed by anyone really and that, in effect, nothing… — James Howard Kunstler Copy Share Image
Society's emissions of carbon dioxide may or may not turn out to have something significant to do with global warming-the jury is… — Edward Teller Copy Share Image
Look, very clearly there are things that need to be done urgently in relation to climate change, and of those the most… — Peter Garrett Copy Share Image
The best way to reduce emissions and pollution is not through partisan political theater but through developing consensus on areas that will… — Richard Burr Copy Share Image
By fundamentally changing how we design the places and systems that enable our daily lives, we can slash emissions way beyond the… — Alex Steffen Copy Share Image
We can debate this or that aspect of climate change, but the reality is that most people now accept our climate is… — Tony Blair Copy Share Image
What we want to do is put a price on greenhouse gases. Because if they're more expensive, businesses will find a way… — Ramez Naam Copy Share Image
I am sympathetic to developing countries’ concerns: because of our emissions it’s their crops that will disappear; because of our inaction, it’s… — John F. Kerry Copy Share Image
When ships reduce their speed they use less fuel, resulting in fewer greenhouse gas emissions and other pollutants; the global shipping industry… — Tatiana Schlossberg Copy Share Image
Greenhouse gas emissions and global warming are among humanity's most pressing concerns. Societal expectations on climate change are real, and our industry… — Ali al-Naimi Copy Share Image
Here's the truth: even if countries like the United States curb our emissions, if growing countries like India - with soaring energy… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
The ice caps are melting now. They're not going to refreeze next year just because we reduce our emissions. We're going to… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
A Labor prime minister, Julia Gillard, who does believe in climate change, nevertheless advised her predecessor, Kevin Rudd, to abandon his emissions… — Richard Flanagan Copy Share Image
