Top 1200 Climate Action Quotes & Sayings

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

Then, if action is possible or necessary, you take action or rather right action happens through you. Right action is action that is appropriate to the whole. When the action is accomplished, the alert, spacious stillness remains.

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.

Like the canary in the coal mine, the climate changes already evident in the Arctic are a call to action.

We have to take immediate and durable action on climate change.

Climate change is moving faster than we are, but we don't give up because we know that climate action is the only path.

We have to have a planet to pass on to the next generation, and these issues of climate change and climate justice and the disproportionate burdens that communities of color actually bear from our damaging climate is a huge issue.

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.

Every country now has its own domestic political debate about how to respond to climate change. This is where the action is.

Let us take advantage of the opportunities presented by climate action and lay the foundations for a more prosperous and secure future for all

Around the world, businesses and investors are increasingly taking action to climate-proof their own organizations.

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.

[Tom] Steyer is specifically spending money on candidates who will take action against climate change.

Because the financial power of the fossil-fuel industry is so great it can, and has, delayed any real action of the climate issues almost everywhere.

Some people say that I should study to become a climate scientist so that I can 'solve the climate crisis.' But the climate crisis has already been solved. We already have all the facts and solutions. All we have to do is to wake up and change.

We need to take urgent action on climate change.

I've been working with every single government since June 1992 to try to get climate action.

Government has the responsibility to provide the climate in which Americans, all Americans, have an opportunity for good jobs; and not only for good jobs, but an opportunity if they have the ability and the desire, to be owners and managers, to have a piece of the action, because if they have a piece of the action, then they believe in the system rather than fighting against it.

Justin Trudeau certainly understands climate science, as do his ministers. But they're refusing to take action on it because of short-term political concerns.

Despite the international scientific community's consensus on climate change, a small number of critics continue to deny that climate change exists or that humans are causing it. Widely known as climate change "skeptics" or "deniers," these individuals are generally not climate scientists and do not debate the science with the climate scientists.

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.

Action is a great restorer and builder of confidence. Inaction is not only the result, but the cause, of fear. Perhaps the action you take will be successful; perhaps different action or adjustments will have to follow. But any action is better than no action at all.

But if we keep doing politics the way we're doing politics, and we keep doing climate action the way we're doing climate action, we will not have a history that judges us because we, certainly as a civilization, won't be here.

Without global action on climate change, Bhutan's tourist and agricultural-based economy faces an acute threat from climate change.

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.

I think I would say that there is absolutely no way to reconcile an austerity agenda with climate action. Our political class needs to understand that the fight against austerity and the fight for climate action are the same fight.

Bold clean energy action is needed to stave off a climate hostile to human life.

My experience as energy and climate change secretary - in the months I spent battling George Osborne over the budget for investment in low carbon, and in the daily attrition with Eric Pickles over onshore wind - was that many Conservatives simply regard their commitment to climate change action as something they had to say to get into power.

As for climate change, it's by now widely accepted by the scientific community that we have entered a new geological era, the Anthropocene, in which the Earth's climate is being radically modified by human action, creating a very different planet, one that may not be able to sustain organized human life in anything like a form we would want to tolerate.

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

Climate action is central for the future of our planet.

I like to think of climate action as a three-legged stool.

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

Climate action in cities is the key that unlocks a low emissions and resilient future.

If you want to understand opposition to climate action, follow the money.

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.

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

As signs of climate instability increase, radical and rapid action is becoming ever more urgent.

Driven by the vision to power a greener tomorrow, Suzlon has leveraged its focus on technology to accelerate action against climate change.

The climate of Ohio is perfect, considered as the home of an ideal republican people. Climate has much to do with national character.... A climate which permits labor out-of-doors every month in the year and which requires industry to secure comfort--to provide food, shelter, clothing, fuel, etc.--is the very climate which secures the highest civilization.

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

I try to stay away from stuff that's just action, action, action, action, action, and you kind of fast-forward through the dialogue scenes. I'm not interested in doing that. Give me a reason to fight, and I'll go there. But don't just make it, 'You touched my pen! Haaa-yah!' I've done that before.

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

The U.K. has been at the forefront of developing the climate change policy architecture that can ensure climate action is integrated into economic decision making.

We now have the economics confirming that not only is climate action required to reduce climate risks, but that it is vital to building long-term, sustainable economic growth.

In 2013, I dedicated myself full-time to combating the very real impacts of climate change. Working across the country, NextGen Climate Action formed new coalitions and worked hard to make climate change a part of our national conversation - and across the country, we had a big impact.

It's very clear the Conservative party does not want to move to real climate action.

I hear people who are worried about climate change tell me, oh, Congress that's gridlock, that's not where the action is.

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

We now know that climate action does not require economic sacrifice. This is fully in line with the World Bank Group's findings. It is up to all of us to make smart policy choices that will help combat climate change. For example, putting a price on carbon is a necessary step and could drive resources and investments to a cleaner economy.

The effects of climate change are real and only getting worse. I would like to build on the promises of the Paris Climate Agreement and make our country a global leader on the fight against climate change.

For many years now, ExxonMobil has held the view that the risks of climate change are serious and do warrant action.

The Paris Agreement underlines the urgency to implement climate action in support of sustainable development.

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

All action to address climate change is an inseparable and integrated part of the whole plan, and the leadership and commitment of all governments remains central to success.

Portland took the lead on climate action more than 25 years ago when we became the first U.S. city to adopt a climate action plan.

One thing is that you won't get climate action without equity, and Greens around the world have always understood this. This has been the dividing point between the green party of France and Emmanuel Macron: You can't get climate policy without equity.

We deserve quality jobs that pay a living wage, lower college tuition, action on climate change, and comprehensive immigration reform.

I've always believed that you should stick as closely to the science as possible. And my biggest advice to reporters has been, if you're doing a climate story, talk to climate scientists. The best climate stories are done by the people who talk to climate scientists.

The idea that China and India will just abandon climate action is not true, because they're doing it for more reasons than we are.