Climate crisis

Peter Meijer

Inserted 3 years ago

“Plenty of members of the [Republican] conference are still in perpetual skeptic mode. When you talk to younger conservatives, the issue of climate is No 1 or 2, but for older generations that's not the case. It's important for the future of our country and the party we stop viewing it as a partisan issue. It's moving a very large ship a matter of degrees. It won't happen overnight. Climate is one of the areas I was concerned about in terms of the long-term trajectory of the party. We are seeing first steps in messaging and proposals. There's a recognition that we have not been on the right side of this and we need to get on the right side of this.”

Theguardian

Member of the Republican Party - U.S. Representative for Michigan

14 May 2021 1 5

Joe Biden

Inserted 3 years ago

“America is back. We rejoined the Paris Agreement and are ready to rally the world to tackle the climate crisis. Let's do this.”

Twitter

President of the United States

22 Apr 2021 1 4

Rachel Cleetus

Inserted 3 years ago

“The US has a lot of ground to make up after four years of being on the sidelines, and it is a welcome change to have an administration that has promised to be guided by the science. The nation and the world need the US to step up to its responsibilities. Leading by example, rather than by rhetoric, is what is needed.”

Aljazeera

Policy director with the Climate and Energy program at the Union of Concerned Scientists

21 Apr 2021 0 3

John Podesta

Inserted 3 years ago

“I think in Obama's mind, it was always about tackling the climate challenge, not making the climate challenge the central element of your economic policy. Biden's team is different. It is really the core of their economic strategy to make transformation of the energy systems the driver of innovation, growth, and job creation, justice and equity.”

Theguardian

American political consultant who served as White House Chief of Staff to President Bill Clinton from 1998 to 2001 and Counselor to President Barack Obama from 2014 to 2015

16 Apr 2021 2 4

Rebecca Solnit

Inserted 3 years ago

“Among the striking phenomena of the early weeks of the pandemic were air quality and birdsong. In the quiet as human activity halted, many people reported hearing birds singing, and across the world air pollution levels dropped dramatically. In some places in India, the Himalayas were visible again, as they had not been for decades, meaning that one of the subtle losses of pollution was vistas. According to CNBC, at the outset of the pandemic, 'New Delhi recorded a 60% fall of PM2.5 from 2019 levels, Seoul registered a 54% drop, while the fall in China's Wuhan came in at 44%.' Returning to normal means drowning out the birds and blurring out the mountains and accepting 8.7 million air pollution deaths a year.”

Theguardian

Guardian US columnist

02 Apr 2021 4 3

Ulf Büntgen

Inserted 3 years ago

“We're all aware of the cluster of exceptionally hot and dry summers we've had over the past few years. Our results show what we have experienced is extraordinary. The series is unprecedented for the last 2,000 years.”

Theguardian

Professor at Cambridge University

15 Mar 2021 0 4

Jake Sullivan

Inserted 3 years ago

“Over the course of the meeting, a sense of optimism for the future, despite the hard times we're in, was on full display. The leaders did discuss the challenge posed by China, and they made clear that none of them have any illusions about China, but today was not fundamentally about China. Much of the focus was on pressing global crises, including the climate crisis, and COVID-19.”

Aljazeera

US National Security Adviser

12 Mar 2021 3 3

Inger Andersen

Inserted 3 years ago

“Reducing food waste would cut greenhouse gas emissions, slow the destruction of nature through land conversion and pollution, enhance the availability of food and thus reduce hunger and save money at a time of global recession. Businesses, governments and citizens around the world have to do their part.”

Theguardian

Executive Director of the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP)

04 Mar 2021 1 3

Marcus Gover

Inserted 3 years ago

“We are so used to wasting food that we've forgotten its value, and the cost that feeding our growing global population has on the natural world. Like it or not, we in our homes are the most significant part of the problem.”

Theguardian

Head of Wrap, an NGO that helped write the UN report on food wasted

04 Mar 2021 0 3

Ed Matthew

Inserted 3 years ago

“It is simply not true to suggest there is low demand for the green homes grant. The scheme is struggling because it has been poorly administered. It needs to be urgently reformed, not axed. This investment is crucial for kickstarting a green recovery.”

Theguardian

Campaigns director at the climate change thinktank E3G

22 Feb 2021 1 3

Ursula von der Leyen

Inserted 3 years ago

“I am sure: A shared transatlantic commitment to a net-zero emissions pathway by 2050 would make climate neutrality a new global benchmark. Together, we could create a digital economy rule book that is valid worldwide: A set of rules based on our values, human rights and pluralism, inclusion and the protection of privacy.”

Aljazeera

President of the European Commission

19 Feb 2021 6 3

James Bays

Inserted 3 years ago

“America is back' was the main theme of the speech, a theme of global cooperation, and also of the US standing by Europe's side. He was clear when he spoke about China and Russia that this new Biden administration was going to stand up to them – but also on key issues like COVID-19 and the climate crisis, work together with them, too.”

Aljazeera

Al Jazeera’s diplomatic editor

19 Feb 2021 5 7

Angel Gurría

Inserted 3 years ago

“The single most urgent, emergent, immediate risk is to combat Covid-19, and its health, economic and social consequences. But the single most important intergenerational responsibility is to protect the planet … We are on a collision course with nature and we have to change course for future generations. To protect biodiversity, to stop it from being degraded; to protect soil; to protect lands and water; to protect the oceans from the worst overfishing; to protect coral reefs, which are in danger of disappearing at 2C [of global heating]; to protect mangroves, which are extraordinary carbon sinks; glaciers and so on. We are already seeing manifestations of how badly this [climate change] is happening, and this is going to get worse. The signals are that this going to be even more serious.”

Theguardian

Secretary-General of the Organisation of Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD)

17 Feb 2021 3 3

Adrián Fernández Bremauntz

Inserted 3 years ago

“Instead of thinking of a transition from coal and fossil fuels, he's thinking of using more coal and petroleum. No other G20 country has such abnormal or retrograde energy policies as this government [Mexican government]. It's not going to advance us toward our climate goals.”

Theguardian

Director of the environmental organisation Iniciativa Climática de México

15 Feb 2021 2 3

Lucia von Reusner

Inserted 3 years ago

“Supermarkets need to go beyond their sustainability rhetoric by setting strict requirements for their suppliers, banning deforestation, monitoring their suppliers for compliance, and dropping contracts with the worst offenders like JBS.”

Theguardian

Senior campaign director of international campaign organisation Mighty Earth

13 Feb 2021 1 3

Mary Ng

Inserted 3 years ago

“This government is clear around our ambitions and objectives around climate change and I absolutely believe that trade and climate and the economy all are synergistic.”

Bloomberg

Canada Minister of Small Business, Export Promotion and International Trade

12 Feb 2021 0 3

Tim Benton

Inserted 3 years ago

“Politicians are still saying 'my job is to make food cheaper for you', no matter how toxic it is from a planetary or human health perspective. We must stop arguing that we have to subsidise the food system in the name of the poor and instead deal with the poor by bringing them out of poverty.”

Theguardian

Professor at Chatham House

03 Feb 2021 0 3

John Kerry

Inserted 3 years ago

“There is no adapting to a 3C or 4C world, except for the very richest and most privileged. Some of the impacts are inevitable, but if we don't act boldly and immediately by building resilience, we will see dramatic reversals in economic development for everybody, and the poorest and most vulnerable communities will pay the highest price.”

Aljazeera

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

29 Jan 2021 0 4

Harvard University

Inserted 3 years ago

“The entire life cycle of bottled water uses fossil fuels, contributes to global warming, and causes pollution.”

Theguardian

Harvard University’s Office for Sustainability

28 Jan 2021 0 4

Cassie Flynn

Inserted 3 years ago

“The voice of the people is clear - they want action on climate change. If 64% of the world’s people are believing in a climate emergency then it helps governments to respond to the climate crisis as an emergency. The key message is that, as governments are making these high-stakes decisions, the people are with them. We are at a fork in the road and the poll says 'this is how your future generations are thinking, in specific policy choices' - it brings a way to envision the future.”

Theguardian

UN Development Programme’s strategic adviser on climate change

27 Jan 2021 0 3

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“America is back. We rejoined the Paris Agreement and are ready to rally the world to tackle the climate crisis. Let's do this.”

“We're all aware of the cluster of exceptionally hot and dry summers we've had over the past few years. Our results show what we have experienced is extraordinary. The series is unprecedented for the last 2,000 years.”

“We are so used to wasting food that we've forgotten its value, and the cost that feeding our growing global population has on the natural world. Like it or not, we in our homes are the most significant part of the problem.”

“It is simply not true to suggest there is low demand for the green homes grant. The scheme is struggling because it has been poorly administered. It needs to be urgently reformed, not axed. This investment is crucial for kickstarting a green recovery.”

“Instead of thinking of a transition from coal and fossil fuels, he's thinking of using more coal and petroleum. No other G20 country has such abnormal or retrograde energy policies as this government [Mexican government]. It's not going to advance us toward our climate goals.”

“Supermarkets need to go beyond their sustainability rhetoric by setting strict requirements for their suppliers, banning deforestation, monitoring their suppliers for compliance, and dropping contracts with the worst offenders like JBS.”

“This government is clear around our ambitions and objectives around climate change and I absolutely believe that trade and climate and the economy all are synergistic.”

“Politicians are still saying 'my job is to make food cheaper for you', no matter how toxic it is from a planetary or human health perspective. We must stop arguing that we have to subsidise the food system in the name of the poor and instead deal with the poor by bringing them out of poverty.”

“The entire life cycle of bottled water uses fossil fuels, contributes to global warming, and causes pollution.”

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