Average Quote by Richard Tol

Climate change will impact most heavily on the disadvantaged. If we don't address these impacts, as well as growing income inequalities, we are marching…

— Wesley K. Wark

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 policies often make life WORSE specifically for the poor...Choosing climate policies over growth policies doesn’t just do nothing. It means more people die…

— Bjorn Lomborg

The bottom line is that the impacts of climate change can exacerbate resource competition, threaten livelihoods, and increase the risk of instability and conflict,…

— John F. Kerry

Climate change is...a gross injustice-poor people in developing countries bear over 90% of the burden-through death, disease, destitution and financial loss-yet are least responsible…

— Barbara Stocking

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

...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

Climate change will affect the basic elements of life for people around the world - access to water, food production, health, and the environment.…

— Nicholas Stern

Failing to curb the impact of climate change could damage the global economy on the scale of the Great Depression or the world wars…

— Nicholas Stern

The impacts of climate change are not going to get better; they are going to get worse.

— Patricia Espinosa

...the world needs to face up to the challenge of climate change, and to do so now. It is clear that climate change poses…

— Gordon Brown

A climate change response must have at its heart a redistribution of wealth and resources.

— Emma Brindal