All Nicholas Stern Quotes
- ...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… Billions
- 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… Century
- 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… Absolute
- 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… Climate Change
- There is still time to avoid the worst impacts of climate change, if we take strong action now. Action
- The scientific evidence is now overwhelming: climate change presents very serious global risks, and it demands an urgent global response Change
- Adaptation is the only means to reduce the now-unavoidable costs of climate change over the next few decades Adaptation
- Adaptation is a vital part of a response to the challenge of climate change Adaptation
- Adaptation can efficiently reduce the costs of climate change while atmospheric concentrations of greenhouse gases are being stabilised Adaptation
- Climate change will affect the basic elements of life for people around the world - access to water, food production, health, and the environment. Hundreds… Access
- Greenhouse gas emissions: Ultimately, stabilisation - at whatever level - requires that annual emissions be brought down to more than 80% below current levels Annual
- Climate change represents the greatest and widest-ranging market failure ever seen Change
- 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… Ask
- 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… Been
- Do politicians understand just how difficult it could be, just how devastating rises of 4C, 5C or 6C could be? I think, not yet Climate Change
- 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? Act
- 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… Absorbing
- 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… Better
- 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… Aires
- 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,… Change