Nicholas Stern Quotes

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• ...what we are talking about is extended world war...People would move on a massive scale. Hundreds of millions, probably billions of people would have to…
• 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 wars…
• If you look at all the serious scientists in the world, there is no big disagreement on the basics of this...it would be absolute lunacy…
• You'd see more floods like you've seen in Mozambique in 2000, you'd see more droughts like you saw in Kenya in the late 1990s, there…
• There is still time to avoid the worst impacts of climate change, if we take strong action now.
• The scientific evidence is now overwhelming: climate change presents very serious global risks, and it demands an urgent global response
• Adaptation is the only means to reduce the now-unavoidable costs of climate change over the next few decades
• Adaptation is a vital part of a response to the challenge of climate change
• Adaptation can efficiently reduce the costs of climate change while atmospheric concentrations of greenhouse gases are being stabilised
• Climate change will affect the basic elements of life for people around the world - access to water, food production, health, and the environment. Hundreds…
• Greenhouse gas emissions: Ultimately, stabilisation - at whatever level - requires that annual emissions be brought down to more than 80% below current levels
• Climate change represents the greatest and widest-ranging market failure ever seen
• I think it's important that people think about what they are doing and that includes what they are eating. I am 61 now and attitudes…
• A rise of 5C would be a temperature the world has not seen for 30 to 50 million years. We've been around only 100,000 years…
• Do politicians understand just how difficult it could be, just how devastating rises of 4C, 5C or 6C could be? I think, not yet
• This [climate change] is potentially so dangerous that we have to act strongly. Do we want to play Russian roulette with two bullets or one?
• Looking back, I underestimated the risks. The planet and the atmosphere seem to be absorbing less carbon than we expected, and emissions are rising pretty…
• Meat is a wasteful use of water and creates a lot of greenhouse gases. It puts enormous pressure on the world's resources. A vegetarian diet…
• Rising sea levels will result in tens to hundreds of millions more people flooded each year with a warming of 3 or 4°C. There will…
• How is it that, in the face of overwhelming scientific evidence, there are still some who would deny the dangers of climate change? Not surprisingly,…

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