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The way I think about this is, there is a meteor coming at our planet and it has the very real potential of wiping out humanity.
Found on Reuters 3 years ago
The U.S. will need to put some money on the table, and also encourage others to do the same.
Found on Reuters 4 years ago
It behooves the rest of the world to come together to support Japan, as well as the other Asian countries, to move beyond coal, we need to make an extraordinary effort that will favor the new fuels that we all need to move in to.
Found on Reuters 5 years ago
The quality of investment today equals the quality of energy tomorrow - equals the quality of life forever, it is not correct to think we are going to deal with climate change tomorrow. We have to deal with it today.
Found on Reuters 8 years ago
I see a growing consensus that $100 billion will be the floor and not the ceiling.
Found on Reuters 9 years ago
What we do know is that there is extraordinary commitment on the part of( the) Chinese leadership to bring their emissions down, to reduce their consumption on coal, yes, of course they have huge coal consumption now ; that is their baseline, and they're working away from that and down from that.
Found on CNN 9 years ago
China is investing $ 80 billion into renewable energy, creating 3 million jobs( and) practically blanketing the Gobi Desert, because they want to take full advantage of their solar potential, together, China and India will be creating the opportunity and investing two times as much into solar and wind as the current global capacity in renewables ….
Found on FOX News 9 years ago
The good news of all those climate change plans is that they actually do cut into the business-as-usual projection of greenhouse gas emissions as well as temperature, we are no longer heading to a world that would increase temperatures by 4, 5 or sometimes even 6 degrees( Celsius) according to some studies, which is what we had a few years ago. But, rather, with full implementation of these climate change plans, we could be heading to a future that would increase the global temperature by 2.7 or 3 degrees.
Found on FOX News 9 years ago
If the people's vehicle says we are going to make it accessible to everybody to get a (zero-emissions) car, we have a little revolution on the way, the people's vehicle.
Found on Reuters 9 years ago
The United States is actually playing catch up to China.
Found on Reuters 9 years ago
Tesla is certainly opening up very, very new ground but Tesla, as we all know, is not exactly the peoples' vehicle.
Found on Reuters 9 years ago
(Many have said) we need a carbon price and (investment) would be so much easier with a carbon price, but life is much more complex than that, i agree it would be more simple ... but it's not quite what we will have.
Found on Reuters 9 years ago
Paris is not the final destination. It is, if anything, the departing station.
Found on Reuters 9 years ago
Even if you do have a punitive system, that doesn't guarantee that it is going to be imposed or would lead to any better action.
Found on Reuters 9 years ago
I would call on you to devote urgent attention to scaling this action up and look forward to learning about progress later in the year.
Found on Reuters 9 years ago
This clarion call should guide the world towards a strong and durable universal climate agreement in Paris at the end of this year.
Found on Reuters 9 years ago
Pope Francis is personally committed to this issue like no other pope before him.
Found on Reuters 9 years ago
It brings some light into what is otherwise a very dark box.
Found on Reuters 9 years ago
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