Federica Mogherini Quotes

I am proud that Ireland is playing its part to drive an ambitious and comprehensive agreement at COP21.

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

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

Raising ambition in 2014 is crucial for arriving at a meaningful climate agreement in 2015.

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.

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.

Though every nation must do its part to address climate change, developed nations are responsible for the lion's share of carbon pollution in the atmosphere, and they have an obligation to help developing nations transition to a sustainable future.

The European nations take climate change very seriously.

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

The only way we can hope to combat climate change, protect our precious land and water, and prevent future extreme weather disasters is to cut the carbon pollution that’s warming our planet, and replace dirty energy sources with clean, renewable sources.

More countries have agreed to the Paris Climate accords than have ever agreed to anything else in the world.

Governments have to conclude a fair, universal, and binding climate agreement, by which every country commits to reducing emissions of greenhouse gases.

Very strong declarations were made by those countries who are most responsible for global warming... the United States and China, which undertook commitments towards changing the situation.

Although Mr. Trump will not be able to pull the United States out of the Paris climate accord, he can legally ignore its provisions, in keeping with his questioning of the existence of man-made climate change.

I believe climate change is real and that we can save our planet while creating millions of good-paying clean energy jobs.

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.

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

I'm proud to have led the brokering of the ambitious 2030 climate package in the European Union to cut greenhouse gases by at least 40%, which puts the E.U. ahead of the global pack in terms of commitments.

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

I've been working with every single government since June 1992 to try to get climate action.

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.'

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.

The targets we all agree on - every country in the world except the U.S., Nicaragua, and Syria - will have targets under the Paris Agreement. So everyone knows what the targets should be, and then we can have a difference of opinion on exactly how these emissions will be reduced.