Nicholas Stern Quotes

Adaptation can efficiently reduce the costs of climate change while atmospheric concentrations of greenhouse gases are being stabilised

I don't know much about climate change. But I'm pretty sure we better figure out what to do to lessen its impact - at least its health impact - and that's not going to happen unless you have a lot of young talent interested in these topics.

As Americans, we have traditionally been the optimists sporting the 'can-do' attitude. But when it comes to addressing climate adaptation and resiliency, we seem to be more 'can't do' than 'can-do.'

There's no really rosy scenario ahead, where climate change just doesn't happen, but I believe we don't have the ethical right to throw our hands up in the air and say, 'Game over.' Whatever pathway we choose, our descendants will be dealing with that reality for centuries to come.

One thing we do know about the threat of climate change is that the cost of adjustment only grows the longer it's left unaddressed.

Climate change is here. We have to learn how to deal with it.

Adaptation is the forgotten word of climate change.

Listen, I think we all believe that we need to take aggressive steps to mitigate the effects of climate change.

I think we're all experiencing climate change. Experience is an effective teacher. It's sometimes a very harsh teacher. So we will be taught about climate change.

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

With a disaster like global warming, it's too late to worry about when it's looming except to figure out how to adapt to it.

Climate change is a complex problem with no central lever, and with unequal distribution of resources.

Many of the issues we face in dealing with rapid climate change are well suited to an engineering mind.

By the time we see that climate change is really bad, your ability to fix it is extremely limited... The carbon gets up there, but the heating effect is delayed. And then the effect of that heat on the species and ecosystem is delayed. That means that even when you turn virtuous, things are actually going to get worse for quite a while.

The effects of climate change are real and must be acted on.

We have no reason to think that climate change is harmful if you look at the world as a whole. Most places, in fact, are better off being warmer than being colder. And historically, the really bad times for the environment and for people have been the cold periods rather than the warm periods.

Make no mistake: Tackling climate change is vital. But to see everything through the lens of short-term CO2 reductions, letting our obsession with carbon blind us to the bigger picture, is to court catastrophe.

Scientists have been warning about global warming for decades. It's too late to stop it now, but we can lessen its severity and impacts.

Climate change is obviously happening and there is obviously a man-made contribution.

Years of drought and famine come and years of flood and famine come, and the climate is not changed with dance, libation or prayer.

I think there is a degree of speculation that is satisfied the climate is changing.

Climate change is transforming the world in profound ways that continue to evolve.

Climate change is a real thing that is happening in the Maldives. It is not something in the future… We are only 1.5 meters above sea level. Fossil fuel technology is obsolete; it has been around for too long.

We’re the first generation to feel the impact of climate change and the last generation that can do something about it.

The growing evidence of climate change is forcing attention on carbon emissions and their reduction.