Bears Quote by Barbara Stocking

...99% of the casualties linked to climate change occur in developing countries. Worst hit are the world's poorest groups. While climate change will increasingly…

— Rajendra K. Pachauri

The impact of climate change will fall disproportionately upon developing countries and the poor persons within all countries. It will therefore exacerbate inequalities in…

— Rajendra K. Pachauri

Climate change is a moral challenge, not simply an economic or technological problem. It is linked to social justice, because it is the poor…

— Alison Hawthorne Deming

Now it is the least developed world who are not responsible for this climate change phenomenon that bore the brunt of climate change consequences…

— Ban Ki-moon

Speaking about climate change is not a matter of intellectual luxury – the phenomenon is an actual fact … all of the industrialised countries,…

— Osama bin Laden

Climate change is an economic, public health, and environmental issue that we have a moral responsibility to address.

— Brad Schneider

Climate change is a huge problem, an almost insoluble problem, for two reasons. One is the habits of the West in terms of consumption.…

— Bill McKibben

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

Funding from rich countries to help the poor and vulnerable adapt to climate change is not even one percent of what is needed. This…

— Barbara Stocking

Beyond the borders of wealthy countries like the United States, in developing countries where most people in the world live, the impacts of climate…

— Amy Goodman

If we do not act to curb climate change immediately, we will leave our children and grandchildren an unrecognizable planetIt is the poor, those…

— Jim Yong Kim

Fighting climate change isn't just an obligation we owe to future generations. It's also an opportunity to improve public health - and drive economic…

— Michael Bloomberg