Bill Clinton Quotes

You can't just do one of the things, because it won't be enough to combat the climate change that we're already starting to experience. It will only get worse.

We actually all care about the environment, and most people believe in climate change and believe that mankind has something to do with that - how much is scientifically debatable, but there is some effect and we all have an interest in reducing carbon emissions, just having cleaner air, cleaner oceans. It's something we can get behind.

But no matter how big the effort to push a propaganda line might be, climate change is bigger. This, undoubtedly and regrettably, is the biggest immediate long-term environmental challenge we face. A failure to concretely come to some policy outcome on climate change has not only a negative environmental impact but also social and economic consequences for us.

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

The second thing is, if you want to do something about global warming, you have to think much more long-term. There is something wrong with saying we should start using renewables now, while they are still incredibly expensive.

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

Climate change is destroying our path to sustainability. Ours is a world of looming challenges and increasingly limited resources. Sustainable development offers the best chance to adjust our course.

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.

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

Many of the technologies we've invented are necessary to keep 6.5 billion people alive. We can't go back from that, so we need to decarbonize really rapidly.

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

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

Science is science, and there is no doubt that if we burned all the fossil fuels that are in the ground right now that the planet’s going to get too hot and the consequences could be dire.

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

We can be thankful President Barack Obama is taking aim at one of the prime causes of climate change and extreme weather: air pollution. The EPA's carbon pollution standards are the most significant step forward our country has ever taken to protect our health by addressing climate change.

Industrialised countries must take the responsibility of helping poorer countries in the climate change action plan.

In 2013, I dedicated myself full-time to combating the very real impacts of climate change. Working across the country, NextGen Climate Action formed new coalitions and worked hard to make climate change a part of our national conversation - and across the country, we had a big impact.

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

Businesses and governments need to work together and make a joint commitment if we want to address climate change effectively and quickly.

Climate change is sometimes misunderstood as being about changes in the weather. In reality it is about changes in our very way of life.

Americans know our only response in the face of mounting risks from climate change must be the swift transition to a clean energy economy. We do not have the luxury of burying our heads in the sand.

We need to reduce carbon emissions, protect Maine's key industries and preserve our coastlines from flooding and rising sea levels.

Cities are where the climate battle will be won or lost.

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

We need to take urgent action on climate change.