Ban Ki-moon Quotes

Doing all we can to combat climate change comes with numerous benefits, from reducing pollution and associated health care costs to strengthening and diversifying the economy by shifting to renewable energy, among other measures.

You will not solve global climate change by hitting the delete button.

Climate change is such a huge issue that it requires strong, concerted, consistent and enduring action by governments.

The main cause that I have attached my name to and am working diligently in is the issue of climate change.

Most reputable scientists agree that climate change is real and that the effects are likely to be bad. But nobody can say for sure exactly what 'bad' means. The safest and most equitable way out of this horrific mess is simple: cut fossil-fuel emissions.

China and India will take the global leadership on climate change: they are suffering for it.

Clean air and a healthy climate benefit all of us, but it will take a diverse coalition to step up to the threat posed by unchecked climate change.

The U.S. has fallen well behind Europe in recognizing climate change and the implications of climate change.

Climate change is real.

What do we do about climate change bearing down upon us?

In China we need to do our own part to try to combat global climate change.

Instead of sitting on the sidelines, President Obama has made it clear that the US is ready to lead a global effort to combat climate change.

Many climate change deniers would have you believe that addressing climate change is all pain and no gain. This is simply not true. We can tackle this challenge while improving our personal health and the health of our economy. These are not competing interests; they go hand in hand.

The biggest barrier to dealing with climate change is us: our own attachment to habits that are hard to shift, and our great ability to park or ignore uncomfortable choices.

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

Climate change is a really abstract thing in most of the world.

Look, very clearly there are things that need to be done urgently in relation to climate change, and of those the most obvious is to have an enforceable and equitable arrangement delivering deep cuts in emissions into the middle of the century.

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

Climate change is crap.

Though every nation must do its part to address climate change, developed nations are responsible for the lion's share of carbon pollution in the atmosphere, and they have an obligation to help developing nations transition to a sustainable future.

The European nations take climate change very seriously.

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.

In global warming, I think everyone is scratching their heads - are there technological things that can be brought to bear that can make a difference?

Clinton understands that climate change is real, is caused by human activity and is one of the great environmental crises facing our planet. She knows that we must transform our energy system away from fossil fuels and move aggressively to energy efficiency and sustainable energy.

Norway is combating climate change. It's an important issue for us. And we are committed to the Paris Agreement.