Climate change

John Crace

Inserted 2 years ago

“To make matters worse, most of the damage was self-inflicted. Trying to drum up global support for the Cop26 summit by reminding everyone he had written several articles 20 years ago that had been sceptical of climate change wasn't the brightest idea he had ever had. It just made him look like the untrustworthy chancer most people thought him to be. Nor did his excuse that when the facts changed he changed, help greatly. No one could remember the facts about climate science having changed that much over the last two decades.”

Theguardian

Journalist and The Guardian's parliamentary sketch writer

21 Sep 2021 4 3

Justin Guay

Inserted 2 years ago

“China was the last man standing. If there's no public finance of coal from China, there's little to no global coal expansion.”

Aljazeera

Director of global climate strategy at the Sunrise Project, a group advocating for a global transition from coal and fossil fuels

21 Sep 2021 2 4

John Kerry

Inserted 2 years ago

“We've been talking to China for quite some period of time about this. And I'm absolutely delighted to hear that President Xi [Xi Jinping] has made this important decision.”

Aljazeera

U.S. Special Presidential Envoy for Climate in Biden's administration

21 Sep 2021 3 5

Xi Jinping

Inserted 2 years ago

“China will step up support for other developing countries in developing green and low-carbon energy, and will not build new coal-fired power projects abroad.”

Aljazeera

President of the People's Republic of China

21 Sep 2021 2 4

Boris Johnson

Inserted 2 years ago

“We heard from some of the industrialised countries … the faint signs of progress. Let's see what the president of the United States has to say tomorrow.”

Aljazeera

UK Prime Minister

20 Sep 2021 3 4

John Kerry

Inserted 2 years ago

“We have an opportunity to have positive impact in Glasgow, but it really depends on choices at this point that China makes because we've made our choice. President Biden has put America on a course to have a 50-52% reduction of carbon emissions relative to 2005 levels by 2030.”

Cnn

U.S. Special Presidential Envoy for Climate in Biden's administration

03 Sep 2021 4 3

Shuo Li

Inserted 2 years ago

“Kerry's [John Kerry] trip does not bode well for the COP26 summit in Glasgow in November. No outcome is the outcome. The [US-China] relationship is taking its toll on the planet.”

Aljazeera

Senior climate adviser with the environmental group Greenpeace

03 Sep 2021 4 4

Alex Wang

Inserted 2 years ago

“Chinese leaders have long said they are engaged in climate action not because of outside pressure, but because it benefits China and the world-at-large. If that is so, then US-China tensions should not slow Chinese climate action.”

Aljazeera

Climate expert and professor at UCLA

02 Sep 2021 3 5

Shuo Li

Inserted 2 years ago

“The G2 (China and the United States) need to realise that beyond their bilateral oasis and desert, the whole planet is at stake. If they don't make joint climate progress fast enough, it is soon all going to be desert.”

Aljazeera

Senior climate adviser with the environmental group Greenpeace

02 Sep 2021 3 5

Katie Lotterhos

Inserted 2 years ago

“Humans are slow learners and climate is changing faster than our systems for regulation in management can keep up. And so as long as we're in this pile of bureaucracy, where we can't adapt our social systems and our management systems to the speed at which climate is changing, it's going to exacerbate climate change even more so.”

Cbc

Associate professor of marine and environmental sciences at Northeastern University's Marine Science Center in Nahant, Maine

26 Aug 2021 1 3

Rick Spinrad

Inserted 2 years ago

“The extreme events we are seeing worldwide - from record-shattering heat waves to extreme rainfall to raging wildfires - are all long-predicted and well-understood impacts of a warmer world. They will continue to get more severe until the world cuts its emissions of CO2 and other greenhouse gases down to net-zero.”

Aljazeera

National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration Administrator

14 Aug 2021 6 6

António Guterres

Inserted 2 years ago

“This report must sound a death knell for coal and fossil fuels, before they destroy our planet. Countries should also end all new fossil fuel exploration and production and shift fossil fuel subsidies into renewable energy.”

Aljazeera

Secretary-general of the United Nations

09 Aug 2021 2 3

Piers Forster

Inserted 2 years ago

“We can expect a significant jump in extreme weather over the next 20 or 30 years. Things are unfortunately likely to get worse than they are today.”

Nytimes

Climate scientist at the University of Leeds

09 Aug 2021 1 3

Jerng Dong-wook

Inserted 2 years ago

“Carbon neutrality is a trend that cannot be avoided to limit global warming and it has become the top-tier energy policy around the world now. We have to review the nuclear phase-out policy from the perspective of carbon neutrality, and in the case of Korea, nuclear energy is indispensable as a way to achieve net zero. It is meaningless to attack the current government for advocating the nuclear phase-out policy. Instead, we should focus on how to restructure Korea's energy mix to reduce carbon emissions. Climate change seriously threatens biodiversity - a 1.5-degree Celsius rise in average temperature may put some 30 percent of species at risk of extinction. The scale of danger cannot be compared to nuclear accidents. Over 180 countries do not gather together to discuss the danger of nuclear energy, but they do for climate agreement. I am not saying no to a nuclear phase-out, but the fight against climate change and carbon neutrality is the bigger subject on the agenda of energy policy. If we can reach net zero without nuclear energy, it would be great. However, it is virtually impossible without an astronomical amount of money.”

Koreatimes

Professor at the School of Energy Systems Engineering at Chung-Ang University

25 Jul 2021 4 6

Johnny Chan

Inserted 2 years ago

“Such extreme weather events will likely become more frequent in the future. What is needed is for governments to develop strategies to adapt to such changes.”

Reuters

Professor of atmospheric science at City University of Hong Kong

21 Jul 2021 1 3

Aisen Nikolaev

Inserted 2 years ago

“Obviously, there is only one reason: Global climate change. We can see how it's getting hotter in Yakutia every year. We are living through the hottest, driest summer in the history of meteorological measurements since the end of the 19th century. Undoubtedly, these [wildfires] are a very serious challenge facing our republic, and our country in general. Yakutia makes up one-third of Russia's forests; the country should be very mindful and careful with its green lungs.”

Themoscowtimes

Head of the Sakha Republic in Russia

20 Jul 2021 1 4

Carlo Buontempo

Inserted 2 years ago

“With climate change we do expect all hydro-meteorological extremes to become more extreme. What we have seen in Germany is broadly consistent with this trend.”

Theguardian

Director of the Copernicus Climate Change Service at the European Centre for Medium-Range Weather Forecasts

16 Jul 2021 1 5

Lina Burnelius

Inserted 2 years ago

“Fit for 55 is harmful to forests and insufficient to tackle climate change. We are in desperate need of honest policies that include all our emissions in the statistics. [The European Commission had chosen] to sacrifice forests rather than admit that current EU bioenergy policy is making the climate crisis worse. Enough with the burning. We cannot just switch from burning one climate disastrous fuel to another.”

Theguardian

Project leader at Protect the Forest Sweden

16 Jul 2021 3 5

Bill Nelson

Inserted 2 years ago

“The combination of the Moon's gravitational pull, rising sea levels, and climate change will continue to exacerbate coastal flooding on our coastlines and across the world. NASA's Sea Level Change Team is providing crucial information so that we can plan, protect, and prevent damage to the environment and people's livelihoods affected by flooding.”

Aljazeera

NASA Administrator

15 Jul 2021 6 4

Ursula von der Leyen

Inserted 2 years ago

“The infernos and hurricanes we have seen over the last few weeks are only a very small window into what our future could look like. But by acting now, when we still have the policy choices, we can do things another way … Europe was the first continent to declare to be climate neutral in 2050, and now we are the very first ones to put a concrete road map on the table.”

Aljazeera

President of the European Commission

14 Jul 2021 2 2

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“China was the last man standing. If there's no public finance of coal from China, there's little to no global coal expansion.”

“We've been talking to China for quite some period of time about this. And I'm absolutely delighted to hear that President Xi [Xi Jinping] has made this important decision.”

“China will step up support for other developing countries in developing green and low-carbon energy, and will not build new coal-fired power projects abroad.”

“We heard from some of the industrialised countries … the faint signs of progress. Let's see what the president of the United States has to say tomorrow.”

“We have an opportunity to have positive impact in Glasgow, but it really depends on choices at this point that China makes because we've made our choice. President Biden has put America on a course to have a 50-52% reduction of carbon emissions relative to 2005 levels by 2030.”

“Kerry's [John Kerry] trip does not bode well for the COP26 summit in Glasgow in November. No outcome is the outcome. The [US-China] relationship is taking its toll on the planet.”

“Chinese leaders have long said they are engaged in climate action not because of outside pressure, but because it benefits China and the world-at-large. If that is so, then US-China tensions should not slow Chinese climate action.”

“The G2 (China and the United States) need to realise that beyond their bilateral oasis and desert, the whole planet is at stake. If they don't make joint climate progress fast enough, it is soon all going to be desert.”

“This report must sound a death knell for coal and fossil fuels, before they destroy our planet. Countries should also end all new fossil fuel exploration and production and shift fossil fuel subsidies into renewable energy.”

“We can expect a significant jump in extreme weather over the next 20 or 30 years. Things are unfortunately likely to get worse than they are today.”

“Such extreme weather events will likely become more frequent in the future. What is needed is for governments to develop strategies to adapt to such changes.”

“With climate change we do expect all hydro-meteorological extremes to become more extreme. What we have seen in Germany is broadly consistent with this trend.”

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