Today's dialogue has succeeded in reinforcing the need for international partnerships and cooperation in tackling the reality of climate change.
We're showing that there's no excuse for other nations to come together, both developed and developing, to achieve a strong global climate agreement next year.
I have come to the frightening conclusion that I am the decisive element. It is my personal approach that creates the climate. It is my daily mood that makes the weather. . . . In all situations, it is my response that decides whether a crisis is escalated or de-escalated, and a person is humanized or is dehumanized.
So the need for another economic model is urgent, and if the climate justice movement can show that responding to climate change is the best chance for a more just economic system.
I think that once people understand the great risks that climate change poses, they will naturally want to choose products and services that cause little or no emissions of greenhouse gases, which means 'low-carbon consumption. ' This will apply across the board, including electricity, heating, transport and food.
Climate change: Don't undermine the science just because you don't like the economics
The climate is changing, and human activity contributes to that in some manner.
The rednecks. Well, you're not going to get there with climate change and [Vladimir] Putin and all the rest of it.
I'm in the dark as to how close to an edge or transition to a new ocean and climate regime we might me. But I know which way we are walking. We are walking toward the cliff.
Leaders lead. They don't divide; they don't create a climate that is poisonous.
This is not some distant problem of the future. This is a problem that is affecting Americans right now. Whether it means increased flooding, greater vulnerability to drought, more severe wildfires - all these things are having an impact on Americans as we speak.
Some governments are prepared to give up elements of sovereignty to address the threat of global climate change.
Have we failed to slow global warming pollution in part because climate and environmental activists have been too polite and well behaved?
The main message we want to get out there is that climate change is caused by the rotten economic system.
I am afraid that I do not hold with the theory of 'global warming' - there will always be climate change. . . . Big thing here is - do we know what we are doing that is bringing about climate change? At present the answer to this is NO.
Given the nature and magnitude of the challenge, national action alone is insufficient. No nation can address this challenge on its own. No region can insulate itself from these climate changes. That is why we need to confront climate change within a global framework, one that guarantees the highest level of international cooperation.
. . . it is fairly well agreed that the surface temperature will rise about 1°C as a modest response to a doubling of atmospheric CO2 if the rest of the component processes of the climate system remain independent of this response.
I remember the $0. 05 hamburger and a $0. 40-per-hour minimum wage, so I've seen a tremendous amount of inflation in my lifetime. Did it ruin the investment climate? I think not.
You'd be forgiven for thinking that climate change means we'll have to sacrifice our creature comforts. But it doesn't have to be that way.
Climate change is a reality.