Hilary Benn Quotes

We have great international experts within India telling us that the climate is changing, and actions has to be taken, otherwise China and India would be the countries most to suffer from climate change.

On average, global warming is not going to harm the developing world.

The impact of climate change is a tremendous risk to the security and well-being of our countries.

Climate change had arrived a century sooner than expected, and future generations were no longer the only victims.

The climate change issue is real and we are seeing its effects right here in South Carolina.

Climate change remains the biggest threat to our civilisation, economy and security - even bigger than Brexit.

I think about issues like climate change, and how six of the 10 worst impacted nations by climate change are actually on the continent of Africa. People are reeling from all sorts of unnatural disasters, displacing them from their ancestral homes and leaving them without a chance at making a decent living.

Failure to curb temperature increases will impact all countries, Ireland included, but with the most immediate and drastic effects being felt, in many instances, by the most vulnerable countries and communities.

Without action to de-carbonize our economies, unchecked climate change threatens to batter lives and economies around the world, hitting the poorest people hardest.

We're in a new reality, living in a time of climate change. We already have climate refugees around the globe and now have to talk about adaptation and mitigation.

Left unchecked, climate change risks not only making the poorest poorer, but pulling the emerging middle classes back into poverty, too.

Climate change threatens serious economic disruption to us all with serious implications to global stability and the impact it will have on the whole of humanity.

Climate change is real. Climate change is being substantially increased by humans and the carbon we put into the atmosphere. And it appears to be speeding up. If science has made any mistakes, science has been underestimating it.

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.

Global climate change has a profound impact on the survival and development of mankind. It is a major challenge facing all countries.

We have chosen to bring future generations into this world of rising seas and warming temperatures, droughts and floods, heat waves and wildfires, a world in which one in four mammals and one in eight birds are at risk of disappearing forever. While the damage we've done is irreversible, that doesn't give us the right to do nothing.

The area of climate change has a dramatic impact on national security.

Climate change is happening, humans are causing it, and I think this is perhaps the most serious environmental issue facing us.

We don't think much about climate change and rising sea levels here in the U.S. Beyond a few gardeners, birders and hikers who notice the changes in our own ecosystem, we live on, blissfully unaware of our changing Earth. Our storms - Katrina, Sandy - are dismissed as once-in-a-century events.

Some scientists believe climate change is the cause of unprecedented melting of the North Pole, and that effects these very uncertain weather patterns. I think we should listen to those scientists and experts.

Pacific Islands are among those that contribute least to global warming, yet suffer most.

Climate Change is a fact!

For millions of Americans, climate change is no longer just a chart or a graph. It's the smoke on our tongues from massive wildfires. It's the floodwater invading our homes and record-breaking hurricanes and heat waves.

Preparing for climate change has to be a national priority backed by tens of billions in federal investment. Lives are on the line.

On climate change, we are told that there will be a civilization-ending development in the form of massive sea level rise as soon as 2050. Anybody plan to be here in 2050? I think a few of us do, myself included.