Caroline Lucas Quotes

Climate change is something that we cannot fix alone - it is the original collective action problem - it will not work unless almost all the large economies of the world act together.

Countries have made impressive pledges to cut carbon pollution, but we have to ensure these promises become actions.

It's not enough for one country or even a few countries to reduce emissions when other countries continue to fill the atmosphere with carbon pollution as they see fit.

Very strong declarations were made by those countries who are most responsible for global warming... the United States and China, which undertook commitments towards changing the situation.

The Paris agreement represents a huge step forward. It would have been preferable, of course, to start the process many years earlier, and a lot of question marks remain on how nations will ratify it, adhere to it and report their carbon reductions. But this is a remarkable ray of hope for our planet.

It's imperative that we opt out of the fossil fuel endgame.

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

We need to remind ourselves that our ultimate goal is not to reduce greenhouse gases or global warming per se but to improve the quality of life and the environment. We all want to leave the planet in decent shape for our kids. Radically reducing greenhouse gas emissions is not necessarily the best way to achieve that.

Americans welcome carbon limits because they want to protect their families from harm.

The best way to deal with climate change has been obvious for years: cut greenhouse-gas emissions severely. We haven't done that. In 2010, for example, carbon emissions rose by six per cent - the largest such increase on record.

If you really accept that global warming puts the world at risk, then you think you would be open to any solution that could undo it.

Unlike many in the conservative camp, I accept theories of global warming, and accept that man-made activity has played a part in global warming. My differences have only been on what the solutions should be.

There's no shortage of Democrats who are at least as committed as Schwarzenegger to reducing greenhouse gases.

Among all the tests President Obama faced in his first term, his biggest failure was climate change.

Putting a tax on carbon could be an effective approach for curbing global warming pollution.

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.

I think that once people understand the great risks that climate change poses, they will naturally want to choose products and services that cause little or no emissions of greenhouse gases, which means 'low-carbon consumption.' This will apply across the board, including electricity, heating, transport and food.

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.

Now, when we face a problem like global warming, and you understand that the biggest impacts on global warming come from business and industry, I think business needs to take a leading role.

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.

Whether the process proves to be Kyoto or something else, let's acknowledge the urgency of global warming.

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

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?

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

Global warming and climate change is a big problem. It requires a big solution.