Carbon Quotes
377 Carbon quotes by 254 unique authors
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As the world's largest economy and second-largest carbon emitter, as a country with unsurpassed ability to drive innovation and scientific breakthroughs, as the country that…
— Barack Obama
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The hard truth is carbon pollution has built up in our atmosphere for decades now. And even if we Americans do our part, the planet…
— Barack Obama
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A low-carbon, clean energy economy can be an engine of growth for decades to come.
— Barack Obama
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First, we must stop wasting energy. A quarter of the UK's carbon emissions come from the home. Our housing stock - the oldest in Europe…
— Chris Huhne
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We simply don't know yet what's going to happen to the carbon in the atmosphere.
— Freeman Dyson
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We could make a difference just by holding our emissions steady as our businesses continue to grow. But that doesn't seem to be enough: we…
— Rupert Murdoch
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We're not a manufacturer, or an airline, but we do use energy. Printing and publishing newspapers, producing films, broadcasting television signals, operating 24-hour newsrooms. It…
— Rupert Murdoch
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The climate crisis is the greatest challenge humanity has ever faced. From not only the warming of the earth with higher global temperatures, but also…
— Al Gore
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Unless a price can be put on carbon emissions that is high enough to force power companies and manufacturers to reduce their fossil-fuel use, there…
— Rajendra K. Pachauri
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An extremely effective instrument would be to put a price on carbon. It is only through the market that you can get a large enough…
— Rajendra K. Pachauri
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No country can hide from the dangers of carbon pollution
— Barack Obama
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There is no high-carbon future
— Peter Mandelson
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Essentially, by 2050 we need all activities outside agriculture to be near zero carbon emitting if we are to stop carbon dioxide levels in the…
— David Miliband
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Low carbon, resource efficient solutions and halting then reversing population growth are two sides of the same coin
— Phil Harding
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I have not been one who believed in the global warming. But I tell you, they are making a convert out of me as these…
— Pat Robertson
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[W]hen we look at the graphs of rising ocean temperatures, rising carbon dioxide in the atmosphere and so on, we know that they are climbing…
— David Attenborough
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The biggest gains, in terms of decreasing the country's energy bill, the amount of carbon dioxide we put into the atmosphere, and our dependency on…
— Steven Chu
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Finding mechanisms for putting carbon back into landscapes enhances biodiversity. More biodiverse ecosystems store more carbon, more securely and are more resilient to the impacts…
— Unknown Author
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A man in twenty-four hours converts as much as seven ounces of carbon into carbonic acid; a milch cow will convert seventy ounces, and a…
— Michael Faraday
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Alone among businesses, the fossil-fuel industry is allowed to dump its main waste, carbon dioxide, for free
— Bill McKibben
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Cutting carbon in the supply chain is the next critical stage in the business contribution to reduce carbon emissions to tackle climate change and, represents…
— Tom DeLay
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In the future, every industry should be an environmental industry. In a world where energy and carbon emissions are constrained, every business must take resource…
— David Miliband
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The rewards that will flow from a successful shift to a low carbon economy are high. Neither governments nor business can afford to let these…
— Margaret Beckett
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Only business can build a low-carbon economy. Business is all about seeing ideas and growing them. Businesses have the resources, the people, the technical skills…
— Tom DeLay
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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…
— Nicholas Stern
Who Wrote These Carbon Quotes
254 authors contributed a total of 377 Carbon Quotes, led by these top contributors: