Climate Change Action Quotes

#1. If Margaret Thatcher took climate change seriously and believed that we should take action to reduce global greenhouse emissions, then taking action and supporting and accepting the science can hardly be the mark of incipient Bolshevism.

Malcolm Turnbull

#2. Climate change is a very unusual ethical challenge because it's so completely measurable ... one of the reasons people should take action is because they have a responsibility for their emissions ... therefore what somebody else does is really irrelevant

George C. Marshall

#3. Global climate change needs global action now. The alarm bells ought to be ringing in every capital of the world.

John Gummer

#4. There's something better than an 'excuse' for your mistake, which is 'now you know how to stop it from happening again'.

Mohith Agadi

#5. Adapting to climate change: It really is time for action ... we are on a never-ending road; this is with us for the rest of our natural lives

Joan Ruddock

#6. Ordinary people have an extremely important role to play in fighting climate change. Not only can you make your home more energy efficient, drive less, and eat more local food - you can also tell your leaders to take climate action.

Frances Beinecke

#7. Climate action is central for the future of our planet.

Jose Manuel Barroso

#8. Our overriding environmental challenge tonight is the worldwide problem of climate change, global warming, the gathering crisis that requires worldwide action.

William J. Clinton

#9. There is still time to avoid the worst impacts of climate change, if we take strong action now.

Nicholas Stern

#10. In the case of climate change, the threat is long-term and diffuse and requires broad international action for the benefit of people decades in the future. And in politics, the urgent always trumps the important, and that is what makes it a very difficult and challenging issue.

Martin Rees

#11. I have been very encouraged by President Obama's call to action on climate change both at his Inauguration and in the State of the Union Address. This is a global imperative. I also welcome President Obama's intention to pursue reductions in nuclear arsenals.

Ban Ki-moon

#12. Industrialised countries must take the responsibility of helping poorer countries in the climate change action plan.

Angela Merkel

#13. Psychologically speaking, the rational, healthy response to climate change is to say to oneself, "What can I do about this?" But that question is often answered through individual action.

Margaret D. Klein

#14. Now is the time to divest and invest to let our world leaders know that we, as individuals and institutions, are taking action to address climate change, and we expect them to do their part this December in Paris at the U.N. climate talks.

Leonardo DiCaprio

#15. Maryland is among the nation's most vulnerable states to the effects of sea level rise from climate change, and we are taking strong action to reduce carbon pollution.

Martin O'Malley

#16. We really don't have a policy [on climate change]. There's a lot of rhetoric and not a lot of action.

Mark Udall

#17. Climate change: I say the debate is over. We know the science, we see the threat and we know that the time for action is now

Arnold Schwarzenegger

#18. Switching to all organic food production is the single most critical (and most doable) action we can take right now to stop our climate crisis.

Maria Rodale

#19. What's blocking action on climate change is what's blocking action on all the other issues that matter: it would cut into profits. Never mind the deep future, not when what's at stake is quarterly earnings.

Rebecca Solnit

#20. Cutting out meat would do more to help combat climate change than any other action we could feasibly take in the next 20 years.

Peter Singer

#21. The world can't have a global solution to climate change with U.S. action alone; and the world can't have a global solution without U.S. action.

Michael Franti

#22. To be clear, climate change is a true 800 pound gorilla in the room. The effects of global warming threaten global environmental upheaval over the coming century. But for South Florida and the Everglades, it could be our death knell if urgent action is not taken.

Debbie Wasserman Schultz

#23. What's now urgently needed [to stop environmental disaster] is the international political commitment to take action to avoid dangerous climate change.

David Miliband

#24. Unless we take action on climate change, future generations will be roasted, toasted, fried and grilled.

Christine Lagarde

#25. What's the use of having developed a science well enough to make predictions if, in the end, all we're willing to do is stand around and wait for them to come true?

F. Sherwood Rowland

#26. We are in an extremely precarious and urgent situation that compels immediate action

David Karoly

#27. The poorest people in the world (particularly in low-lying areas) will suffer the most if we do not take action on climate change ... that calls for any tactic that might call attention to the problem.

Jason David Frank

#28. We do agree that our country must take action to address climate change.

Newt Gingrich

#29. Climate change is such a huge issue that it requires strong, concerted, consistent and enduring action by governments.

Peter Garrett

#30. I believe it's time for direct action on climate change, standing together as ordinary Australians to take control of our shared future.

David Pocock