Sara Gideon Quotes

If each one of us does our bit, we will be helping to keep global warming from harming our countries.

Climate change is the central environmental ill of our time. We have an obligation to protect our children from the dangers of this widening scourge, and we aren't yet doing enough about it.

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

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 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.

If we're concerned about climate change as a country, we should have policies that make sure our great-grandchildren have a planet that's healthy and strong.

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

However we choose to leave the E.U., let me be clear: we remain committed to dealing with climate change.

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

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.

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.'

Renewables are critical in our fight against climate change.

Our leaders must get to grips with the huge risk that carbon dioxide emissions pose to the economy and the environment. As we know, carbon dioxide is a long-lived gas. It hangs around.

We will need to reach out to all those actors - to governments, to civil societies, to businesses - and help in mobilizing them to help in this fight against climate change.

Climate change is the environmental challenge of this generation, and it is imperative that we act before it's too late.

We need to take urgent action on climate change.

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.

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.

Climate change is real.

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.

What do we do about climate change bearing down upon us?

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