Challenges Quote by Fatih Birol

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

— Jim Yong Kim

“Humanity's current demand for energy is fundamentally unsustainable. The only feasible choice is to conduct a massive downscaling of all economic, industrial, and political…

— Stacy Pettigrew

If we invest in researching and developing energy technology, we'll do some real good in the long run, rather than just making ourselves feel…

— Bjorn Lomborg

We are about to enter a new era in which, each year, less net energy will be available to humankind, regardless of our efforts…

— Richard Heinberg

[The report 'World Energy Outlook 2006'] reveals that the energy future we are facing today, based on projections of current trends, is dirty, insecure…

— Claude Mandil

The future is green energy, sustainability, renewable energy.

— Arnold Schwarzenegger

As we develop our energy policies in the United States to generate our energy clean, then I think we're going to really move to…

— Alan Mulally

The energy crisis has not yet overwhelmed us, but it will if we do not act quickly. It's a problem that we will not…

— Jimmy Carter

Our economic future and our energy future are one in the same, and it's a future America can't shrink from. We must shape it,…

— Tom Perez

For decades we have been living lives of abundance, with little regard for our natural resources or global health. But we are now facing…

— John McCain

It is important to allow a broad debate on energy and climate. We must urgently explore realistic ways to address the different scientific, technical…

— Lennart Bengtsson

The climate challenge illustrates how we have to change. The developing countries need more support and opportunities to develop and use clean energy. Because…

— Gro Harlem Brundtland