Saikat Chakrabarti Quotes

As a member of the bipartisan Climate Solutions Caucus, I'm committed to finding consensus on legislation to address our environmental and energy challenges.

The U.S. has fallen well behind Europe in recognizing climate change and the implications of climate change.

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.

Among all the tests President Obama faced in his first term, his biggest failure was climate change.

The European nations take climate change very seriously.

Ever since the collapse of cap and trade legislation and the realization that President Obama is unlikely to ever utter the words 'climate change' in public again, much less use the bully pulpit to prepare the nation for the catastrophic risks of inaction, the movement has been in a funk.

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.

As far as I'm aware, everybody in the shadow cabinet accepts that there's a compelling case on climate change and a strong scientific case.

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

The American people know that climate change is the kind of problem only America can solve.

Every week in the Senate, I give a speech telling my colleagues it is time to wake up to the reality of a changing climate.

The effects of climate change are real and only getting worse. I would like to build on the promises of the Paris Climate Agreement and make our country a global leader on the fight against climate change.

We cannot afford a dead stop on all of the progress we have made under President Obama in saving our planet from the devastating consequences of climate change.

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

Climate change is happening, and humans are significant contributors, and that raises some really important policy questions.

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.'

I am saying to Canadians, there is no climate emergency in this country.

On climate change, Britain is leading in Europe.

We need a government that takes climate change seriously, one that doesn't shunt it to the side-lines.

If every country's climate policy was driven purely by environmental science, we may have no need for international agreements.

We have to take immediate and durable action on climate change.

We should be redoubling our own efforts to combat climate change, not watering them down.

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

Most reputable scientists agree that climate change is real and that the effects are likely to be bad. But nobody can say for sure exactly what 'bad' means. The safest and most equitable way out of this horrific mess is simple: cut fossil-fuel emissions.

China and India will take the global leadership on climate change: they are suffering for it.