Peter Garrett Quotes

I think we have a very brief window of opportunity to deal with climate change. No longer than a decade at most.

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.

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.

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

...the world needs to face up to the challenge of climate change, and to do so now. It is clear that climate change poses an urgent challenge, not only a challenge that threatens the environment but also international peace and security, prosperity and development. And as the Stern report showed, the economic effects of climate change on this scale cannot be ignored, but the costs can be limited if we act early

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.

I think that one of our most difficult international challenges is clearly climate change and making sure that the Paris agreement goes forward. While I think the international community understands that President Trump is not taking the same position as President Obama.

I'm about to embark on what may be as important as an initiative as anything I do as President, trying to nudge the world in the direction of doing something serious about climate change.

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

When it comes to dealing with the world's climate and energy challenges, I have a simple rule: change America, change the world.

Since stepping down as laboratory director in 1999, I have devoted an increasing fraction of my time to international issues. I am involved with energy, environment, and sustainability issues, particularly as they involve new energy sources free of greenhouse gases.

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.

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

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.

The United States did not sign Kyoto, yet its emissions are not that different from the countries that did sign it.

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

The ice doesn't care who's in the White House. It doesn't care which party controls your congress. It doesn't care which party controls your parliament. It just melts.

If you take energy and climate change, you really cannot deal with the problems with energy and climate change without European co-operation at a high level. If you take digitalisation, it's an obvious area where European co-operation can actually make a difference.

Climate change demands a collective response. We can't expect other countries to act if we don't.

We should not only look at the short-term economic benefits of fossil fuels but also at the bad news for climate change. We should therefore not greet the fossil fuel age unconditionally.

I am one of those from the green movement who recognises the low carbon benefits of nuclear generation.

Climate change is real and humans do contribute to those changes.

I do believe that [climate change] is real.

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

Hillary's [Clinton] policies on climate change are a problem too. We ignore her track record at our peril.