Nicholas Stern Quotes

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• Looking back, I underestimated the risks. The planet and the atmosphere seem to be absorbing less carbon than we expected, and emissions are rising pretty strongly. Some of the effects are coming through more quickly than we thought then.

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  Business, Risk, Atmosphere

  "Nicholas Stern: 'I got it wrong on climate change - it's far, far worse'" by Heather Stewart and Larry Elliott, www.theguardian.com. January 26, 2013.

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• Climate change represents the greatest and widest-ranging market failure ever seen

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  Climate, Climate Change, Market Failure

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• Climate change is a result of the greatest market failure the world has seen...We risk damages on a scale larger than the two world wars of the last century.

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  War, Two, Risk

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• Climate change and global poverty are two sides of the same coin. Both challenges must be addressed together. If we fail on one, we will also fail on the other.

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  Two Sides, Challenges, Together

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• Failing to curb the impact of climate change could damage the global economy on the scale of the Great Depression or the world wars by spawning environmental devastation that could cost 5 to 20 percent of the world's annual gross domestic product.

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  War, Impact, Environmental

  The report by Nicholas Stern, www.washingtonpost.com. October 31, 2006.

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

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  Strong, Impact, Climate

  Nicholas Stern (2007). “The Economics of Climate Change: The Stern Review”, p.19, Cambridge University Press

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• Adaptation is a vital part of a response to the challenge of climate change

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  Challenges, Climate, Adaptation

  Nicholas Stern (2007). “The Economics of Climate Change: The Stern Review”, p.601, Cambridge University Press

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• Climate change will affect the basic elements of life for people around the world - access to water, food production, health, and the environment. Hundreds of millions of people could suffer hunger, water shortages and coastal flooding as the world warms.

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  People, Water, Suffering

  "The Cost Benefit Analysis of Climate Change Legislation: Future Generations Will Thank You" by H. A. Goodman, www.huffingtonpost.com. May 22, 2014.

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• Science and policy-making thrive on challenge and questioning; they are vital to the health of inquiry and democracy.

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  Policy Making, Challenges, Democracy

  "The point of no return" by Nicholas Stern, www.theguardian.com. March 29, 2009.

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• The scientific evidence is now overwhelming: climate change presents very serious global risks, and it demands an urgent global response.

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  Risk, Climate, Demand

  "Buying carbon credits cost-effective and necessary". www.irishtimes.com. December 14, 2006.

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• What we are talking about is extended world war...People would move on a massive scale. Hundreds of millions, probably billions of people would have to move.

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  War, Moving, Talking

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• Adaptation is the only means to reduce the now-unavoidable costs of climate change over the next few decades

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  Mean, Climate, Cost

  Nicholas Stern, Great Britain. Treasury (2007). “The Economics of Climate Change: The Stern Review”, p.319, Cambridge University Press

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• The one way of guaranteeing to fail is to assume that we will.

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  Way, Assuming, Failing

  "Nicholas Stern: We must not give in to pessimism" by James Randerson, www.theguardian.com. April 22, 2009.

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• How is it that, in the face of overwhelming scientific evidence, there are still some who would deny the dangers of climate change? Not surprisingly, the loudest voices are not scientific, and it is remarkable how many economists, lawyers, journalists and politicians set themselves up as experts on the science.

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  Voice, Faces, Climate

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• My father's generation's crisis was fighting fascism. Ours is fighting climate change. It is much harder because you can't see it, it is not an obvious threat. But the solution is in our hands.

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  Father, Fighting, Hands

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• Do politicians understand just how difficult it could be, just how devastating rises of 4C, 5C or 6C could be? I think, not yet

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  Thinking, Politician, Climate Change

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• Rising sea levels will result in tens to hundreds of millions more people flooded each year with a warming of 3 or 4°C. There will be serious risks and increasing pressures for coastal protection in South East Asia (Bangladesh and Vietnam), small islands in the Caribbean and the Pacific, and large coastal cities, such as Tokyo, Shanghai, Hong Kong, Mumbai, Calcutta, Karachi, Buenos Aires, St. Petersburg, New York, Miami and London.

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  New York, Islands, Years

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• Unfortunately, the current pace of progress is not nearly rapid enough, with many rich industrialised countries being slow to make the transition to cleaner and more efficient forms of economic growth.

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  Country, Growth, Progress

  "Climate change is here now and it could lead to global conflict". www.theguardian.com. February 14, 2014.

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• This [climate change] is potentially so dangerous that we have to act strongly. Do we want to play Russian roulette with two bullets or one?

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  Play, Two, Climate

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• Greenhouse gas emissions: Ultimately, stabilisation - at whatever level - requires that annual emissions be brought down to more than 80% below current levels

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  Levels, Climate Change, Currents

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• I've never really had much of a career plan, and interesting opportunities kept cropping up.

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  Opportunity, Careers, Interesting

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• Meat is a wasteful use of water and creates a lot of greenhouse gases. It puts enormous pressure on the world's resources. A vegetarian diet is better.

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  Vegetarian Diet, Water, Meat

  "Vegetarian diet is better for the planet, says Lord Stern" by David Batty, David Adam, www.theguardian.com. October 26, 2009.

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• I think it's important that people think about what they are doing and that includes what they are eating. I am 61 now and attitudes towards drinking and driving have changed radically since I was a student. People change their notion of what is responsible. They will increasingly ask about the carbon content of their food.

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  Change, Attitude, Drinking

  "Vegetarian diet is better for the planet, says Lord Stern" by David Batty and David Adam, www.theguardian.com. October 26, 2009.

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• The basic scientific conclusions on climate change are very robust and for good reason. The greenhouse effect is simple science: greenhouse gases trap heat, and humans are emitting ever more greenhouse gases.

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  Simple, Climate, Heat

  Nicholas Stern (2009). “The Global Deal: Climate Change and the Creation of a New Era of Progress and Prosperity”, p.33, PublicAffairs

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• Those who say that climate change doesn't exist are being understood as the flat-earthers that they are, as the people who deny the link between smoking and cancer, as the people who denied the link between HIV and AIDS.

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  Cancer, People, Smoking

  "Stern: Climate change deniers are 'flat-earthers'" by Sunny Hundal, www.theguardian.com. March 10, 2009.

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