All Nicholas Stern Quotes
- I think that once people understand the great risks that climate change poses, they will naturally want to choose products and services that cause little… Across
- If coal is going to be used, the only response - because it is the dirtiest of all fuels - is that we have to… All
- It's very important that there should be cross-fertilisation between government and academia. Both parties can benefit from having a better understanding of how the other… Academia
- My father's generation's crisis was fighting fascism. Ours is fighting climate change. It is much harder because you can't see it, it is not an… Change
- The basic scientific conclusions on climate change are very robust and for good reason. The greenhouse effect is simple science: greenhouse gases trap heat, and… Basic
- The greenhouse effect is something you can observe experimentally - and most people have observed the greenhouse effect themselves, in greenhouses. Yes? Effect
- As an undergraduate, I did maths and physics. That doesn't make me a scientist. So I try to read and understand and talk to scientists. Math
- I've never really had much of a career plan, and interesting opportunities kept cropping up. Career
- Science and policy-making thrive on challenge and questioning; they are vital to the health of inquiry and democracy. Challenge
- The one way of guaranteeing to fail is to assume that we will. Assume
- To claim the World Bank is just an extension of U.S. foreign policy is just wrong. Bank
- A diet that relies heavily on meat production results in higher emissions than a typical vegetarian diet. Different individuals will make different choices. However, the… Change
- Enlightened self-interest from those involved in hydrocarbons should lead to the support of technologies enabling the clean use of hydrocarbons, such as carbon capture and… Capture
- Those who say that climate change doesn't exist are being understood as the flat-earthers that they are, as the people who deny the link between… Aids
- We can look back through ice-core data and see over 800,000 years, relationships between carbon dioxide and the temperature of the world. So those people… Act
- We run enormous risks and we know what kind of reductions of greenhouse gases are necessary to drastically reduce risks. Reducing emissions by half by… Ballpark
- We will not overcome world poverty unless we manage climate change successfully. I've spent my life as a development economist, and it's crystal clear that… Battle
- Failing to curb the impact of climate change could damage the global economy on the scale of the Great Depression or the world wars by… Annual