Ban Ki-moon Quotes

Global warming is not only the number one environmental challenge we face today, but one of the most important issues facing all of humanity... We all have to do our part to raise awareness about global warming and the problems we as a people face in promoting a sustainable environmental future for our planet.

We must stop climate change. And we can, if we use the tactics that worked in South Africa against the worst carbon emitters.

India has a responsibility to itself to fight Climate Change

I have great respect for Bernie Sanders, there was a moment where he opposed the Paris Deal... I was frustrated with him, but he and I have a very good relationship... and I have great affection for him, but I do think when he criticized the Paris agreement, I didn't think it was the right position.

Climate change is severely impacting the health of our planet and all of its inhabitants, and we must transition to a clean energy economy that does not rely on fossil fuels.

We should be treating, I think, the whole issue of climate change and global warming with a far greater degree of priority than I think is happening now.

"Some human activity linked to climate change." That bothers me much more than whether or not we're gonna be prosecuting Hillary [Clinton].

People of conscience in our leadership in Washington have been scared off by the right and the fossil fuel lobbies. They won't even use the term "sustainability" or "climate change" in an energy bill, which is ludicrous on its face. It completely ignores the elephant in the room that we're all dealing with. The average American doesn't even believe climate change is real, they think it's all a hoax.

Climate change has happened because of human behaviour, therefore it’s only natural it should be us, human beings, to address this issue. It may not be too late if we take decisive actions today.

I have voted that climate change is happening and it's also caused by man.

I have been fighting climate change and working to improve our environment.

We will respond to the threat of climate change

We can make a concerted effort to stop poisoning the planet: that would be a good way of appeasing the gods.

Building a 'Green Gabon' has always been a central pillar of my government, and in 2014, I introduced a new legal framework that puts environmental protection and sustainable development firmly at the heart of our future economic growth.

It needs to be understood that global warming countermeasures could transform the economy and foster growth, not hinder it.

I am convinced that climate change represents a historic opportunity on an even greater scale.

We had global warming between 1940 and 1998. Since then, we haven't had a rise in temperature. That doesn't mean we don't have a problem. If that problem is going to be solved, it ought to be solved by an international treaty.

The climate change is real today, but also the solutions that we have available to us that are cost-effective and beneficial to everyone are at our disposal now.

Climate change is probably the greatest long-term challenge facing the human race.

We'd already lost the possibility of stopping global warming entirely. That hasn't been in the cards for a long time. The triumph of Trump probably means that we're not going to be able to stop it at the two-degree mark that the world had been aiming for. That's very bad news, mostly because the planet seems to be more sensitive than we thought to even small increases in temperature.

Climate change is due to the use of energy for industrial growth, which has been and is overwhelmingly based on fossil fuels.

Tackling climate change is a collective endeavour, it means collective accountability and it's not too late

I like to think of climate action as a three-legged stool.

We'll never get there if we let the climate crisis bloom unchecked, so for the moment the key is to organize, organize, organize!

Climate action is central for the future of our planet.