Climate change Quote by Lester R. Brown

The concept of national sovereignty has been an immutable, indeed sacred, principle of international relations. It is a principle which will yield only slowly…

— Maurice Strong

The emerging 'environmentalization' of our civilization and the need for vigorous action in the interest of the entire global community will inevitably have multiple…

— Mikhail Gorbachev

Some governments are prepared to give up elements of sovereignty to address the threat of global climate change.

— Richard N. Haass

The nations must be organized internationally and induced to enter into partnership, subordinating in some measure national sovereignty to worldwide institutions and obligations.

— Arthur Henderson

In the next century, nations as we know it will be obsolete; all states will recognize a single, global authority. National sovereignty wasn't such…

— Strobe Talbott

Strengthening the role the United Nations can play...will require serious examination of the need to extend into the international arena the rule of law…

— Maurice Strong

...the Kyoto Protocol...the first component of an authentic global governance...

— Jacques Chirac

We have a much bigger objective. We've got to look at the long run here. This is an example - the situation between the…

— Stansfield Turner

The basic problem with the new species of global institutions is that they have not yet become aware of themselves as living. Once they…

— Betty Sue Flowers

“The obvious pollution occurring in many places - worst of all, in the planned societies- has encouraged the growth of the environmental movement, which,…

— Jacqueline Kasun

We are now physically, politically, and economically one world and nations so interdependent that the absolute national sovereignty of nations is no longer possible.

— John Boyd Orr

The objective, clearly enunciated by the leaders of UNCED, is to bring about a change in the present system of independent nations. The future…

— Dixie Lee Ray