Climate Quote by Ban Ki-moon

Climate change and global poverty are two sides of the same coin. Both challenges must be addressed together. If we fail on one, we…

— Nicholas Stern

Saving our planet, lifting people out of poverty, advancing economic growth... these are one and the same fight. We must connect the dots between…

— Ban Ki-moon

“If we see each problem—be it water shortages, climate change, or poverty—as separate, and approach each separately, the solutions we come up with will…

— Peter M. Senge

We live in an interconnected world, in an interconnected time, and we need holistic solutions. We have a crisis of inequality, and we need…

— Naomi Klein

We have climate change caused by greenhouse gas emissions, mostly from human power and transportation infrastructure. At the same time, we have 2 billion…

— Ramez Naam

We cannot eliminate poverty without enabling developing countries to engage more people in economic activity that use natural resources, and we cannot resolve runaway…

— Paul Polman

The ability of communities to meet their most basic needs - food, water, energy, sanitation - is threatened by climate change.

— Patricia Espinosa

We cannot confront the massive challenges of poverty, hunger, disease and environmental destruction unless we address issues of population and reproductive health

— Thoraya Obaid

Address these environmental issues and you will address every issue known to man. And we keep dabbling in things that aren't really that important…

— Ted Danson

The world must come together to confront climate change. There is little scientific dispute that if we do nothing, we will face more drought,…

— Barack Obama

Ending poverty and ensuring sustainability are the defining challenges of our time. Energy is central to both of them.

— Jim Yong Kim

We have serious challenges regarding climate change, unsustainable use of natural resources, water scarcity, loss of biodiversity, forests and farmland. Not to mention the…

— Guilherme Leal