Climate Change Quotes

What people are saying about climate change:

 “We can’t ignore the security threats from climate change. The decisions we make in coming months will determine whether we meet this challenge head-on and prevail or if we are to suffer the worst consequences of a warming planet. This time we have to connect the dots before we face catastrophe.”  John Kerry

Source: Huffington Post, 31st August 2009
"Choose cars that leave a smaller footprint on the environment and practice ecological driving -- the latter alone can reduce fuel consumption by 10 percent."

Minoru Taniguchi, Head of Environmental Department at Japa Automobil Manufacturers.
Source: Reuters

"Climate change affects us all, but it does not affect us all equally. The poorest and most vulnerable –those who have done the least to contribute to global warming—are bearing the brunt of the impact today". 

Ban Ki-moon
Source: Korea Herald 4.2009

"Climate Change is the greatest threat facing humanity.
It threatens to undo 50 years of our development work and it will impact the poor in the greatest sense.  I’m concerned that if we don’t Seal the Deal! in Copenhagen later this year, then lives and livelihoods will be lost.  Already, in over 100 countries where we work we are seeing livelihoods disappear, impacting the poor".
Source: Message recorded for campaign Tim Costello, World Vision

"Climate change is perhaps the greatest threat faced by human society.  Human activity including decades of technological development has damaged our planet.  Widespread pollution and spiraling consumption of the earth’s mineral and biological reserves have put unprecedented stress on the environment.  But just as human activity has caused the problem, so too can human activity find the solutions."
Source: Message recorded for campaign Francis Gurry, Director General World Intellectual Property Organization

"I think climate change is important because it represents a sickness in the way that humans think about the world.  It is a symptom of the fact that we think the world is inexhaustible and it is there for us to use and not to work with.  What we need to tackle climate change is to change this idea.  We need education policy to change the way we live and interact with the world, from Copenhagen." 

Amir Jina, Climate Change Masters Student, Columbia University.

I encourage people from around the world, government leaders and business leaders that it is of high importance that we Seal the Deal! in Copenhagen this year."

Associate Director, Environment Initiatives at World Economic Forum, Randall Krants