Economic development over the past two centuries has taken most of humanity from lives that were brutal, ignorant and short, to personal health and security, material comfort and knowledge that were unknown to the elites of the wealthiest and most… — Ross Garnaut Copy Share Image
The climate change problem is at its heart an ethical problem. It's a problem of income distribution and it's a problem of income distribution… — Ross Garnaut Copy Share Image
It crosses my mind that our generation may leave problems that are simply too hard for human society in the generations that follow. The… — Ross Garnaut Copy Share Image
A reduction in emissions matters more than what a country pays for it. — Ross Garnaut Copy Share Image
It is a simple fact of life on earth that there is going to be no successful mitigation of the climate change problem without… — Ross Garnaut Copy Share Image
A revolution in humanity's use of fossil fuel-based energy would be necessary sooner or later to sustain and to extend modern standards of living. It will be required sooner if we are to hold the risks of climate change to acceptable levels. The costs that we bear in making an early adjustment will bring forward, and reduce for future times,… — Ross Garnaut Copy Share
Carbon capture and storage, its commercial development.. is going to be the key to the future of coal. If it is successful commercially, then… — Ross Garnaut Copy Share Image
Every climate scientist has his or her own views on some issues that differ from the mainstream in detail. But the broad findings of… — Ross Garnaut Copy Share Image
There is not going to be, we can be quite certain, there's not going to be any action on reducing greenhouse gas emissions by… — Ross Garnaut 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 the historical… — Ross Garnaut Copy Share Image
I see myself as a climate change skeptic and a skeptic looks at the evidence and bases conclusions on the evidence rather than on… — Ross Garnaut Copy Share Image
Economic development over the past two centuries has taken most of humanity from lives that were brutal, ignorant and short, to personal health and… — Ross Garnaut Copy Share Image
