Climate change Quote by David Keith

“Today global spending on clean energy technologies is almost $300 billion per year—about a hundred times the direct cost of stratospheric aerosol geoengineering.”

— David Keith

If every country committed to spending 0.05 per cent of GDP on researching non-carbon-emitting energy technologies, that would cost $25 billion a year, and…

— Bjorn Lomborg

To be clear, geoengineering won't solve global warming. It's not a 'techno-fix.' It would be enormously risky and almost certainly lead to troubling unforeseen…

— Jamais Cascio

The cost of infrastructure development to host a mega-event can be offset against economic growth over future decades.

— Richard Attias

Subsidies for the oil, gas and coal industries are projected to cost taxpayers more than $135 billion in the coming decade. At a time…

— Bernie Sanders

“The Paris Agreement will cost a fortune to carry out and do almost no good… Every single major industrialized country is failing to live…

— Bjorn Lomborg

Geoengineering - the deliberate, large-scale manipulation of the earth's climate to offset global warming - is a nightmare fix for climate change.

— Jeff Goodell

Catastrophic damage from climate-driven extreme weather is now an annual reality. The cost of not dealing with it will be much greater than if…

— Avi Lewis

We not only need a rapid transition to a low-carbon economy that prevents the most cataclysmic consequences of global warming, we need real dollars…

— Bill de Blasio

Climate change is a fact. Its consequences, damages and costs are already being felt around the globe.

— Heinz Fischer

“Once established, commercial interests in geoengineering will no doubt defend the need to keep on keeping on, using whatever means available from backroom lobbying…

— David Keith

The Kyoto treaty has an estimated cost of between US$150 and $350 billion a year, starting in 2010.

— Bjorn Lomborg