Erin O'Toole Quotes

The Liberals would love to have people believe that the choice is a carbon tax or nothing. I reject that.

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

The reason we should do a carbon tax is because it's the right thing to do. It's economics 101, elementary stuff.

Some people who oppose a carbon tax do so only because they don’t want the government to have a big role. The irony is that by opposing it, they assure that the government will have a big role dealing with the effects of climate change

We have, here in California, among the most ambitious climate goals in the country. It's not just our political leaders or our regulators that really wants these things.

In terms of the Green New Deal, I support the urgency and the end goal of the Green New Deal. I would look to work with our climatologists, economists to propose my own plan and how we would meet those goals.

The Paris Agreement is a highly significant step in tackling climate change - but a piece of paper will not save the world. It is not 'job done.'

Canadians didn't vote for a carbon tax. Justin Trudeau campaigned, promised that he wouldn't create a carbon tax.

I support the need for Canada to play a significant role in reducing global emissions.

Labour's Climate Change Act and our other reforms, including the Green Investment Bank, have been the foundation for the huge growth of Britain's green industries.

I want to use my position of leadership to help move along at a faster pace what I believe and know the Obama administration wants to do around the urgency of climate change.

On the environment and climate change, I suspect that future generations will think there was too much timidity, too much fear of upsetting business. Basically, New Labour was very nervous about regulating business, or requiring it to do anything, even when there was a very clear social or environmental case for doing so.

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.

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.

I hope that in future Congresses there will reemerge a recognition that climate change is a reality, that our policies to meet our energy needs must also deal responsibly with environmental issues, including the damage caused by greenhouse gas emissions.

The carbon tax is the single biggest rolled gold example of Federal Labor not listening.

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.

For the U.S., I think we should have a carbon tax, for environmental reasons.

I'm not in favor of just taking short-term isolated situations and depleting our resources to keep our climate just the way it is today.

The European nations take climate change very seriously.

The shift to a cleaner energy economy wont happen overnight, and it will require tough choices along the way. But the debate is settled. Climate change is a fact.

I am convinced that policies meant to reduce alleged carbon dioxide-induced global warming will be destructive.

There has been evidence throughout history of cycles when the earth gets warmer and cycles when the earth gets colder. We should always be wise stewards of the earth and all of our natural resources. But as a policymaker, I won't be guided by the global warming propaganda machine. Al Gore - we need you to return your Nobel Peace Prize!

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

The first sign of whether Obama is serious about confronting the climate crisis will be revealed by how he organizes the White House.