Emissions Quotes - Page 7

• We need a firm cap on carbon emissions from fossil fuels. No coal, oil, or gas could enter the economy until the buyer had a permit. All permits would be auctioned by the federal government, and the number of permits auctioned would be decreased by three percent per year. Permits could be traded, but they could not be created out of whole cloth by companies that plant forests or dump iron filings at sea.

  Denis Hayes

  Years, Sea, Iron

  Source: therumpus.net

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• One of the reasons the United States has actually been reducing its emissions in recent years is actually that there's been a boom in natural gas. It's displacing coal. It emits less carbon dioxide when you burn it. This is not really an Obama policy. It's just something that happened because of technology and the free market.

  Chris Mooney

  Technology, Years, United States

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• And "all the above" [what President Barack Obama calls his policy of promoting all forms of domestic energy], compared to "drill, baby, drill," if you actually look at the track record, we've massively escalated the emissions of methane and carbon dioxide.

  Jill Stein

  Baby, Track, President

  Source: www.justicenewsnetwork.com

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• That's why we call for a New Deal prototype. Which means we are creating the jobs - nationally funded program but locally controlled - with guidelines to achieve 100% clean renewable energy through wind, water and sun by 2030. Also to create a sustainable food system, since this is a major portion of climate emissions, and also calling for public transportation as well as infrastructure restoration including in that ecosystem restoration.

  Jill Stein

  Jobs, Mean, Wind

  Source: www.justicenewsnetwork.com

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• There would be a cost for dumping carbon into our atmosphere and a cap on total emissions. The government must make a clear and firm decision - terminating the idea in our society it is free to pump infinite amounts of carbon into the air. Once that happens, private capital will flow even more aggressively into developing and deploying the alternative, less-polluting technologies.

  Van Jones

  Technology, Government, Air

  Source: rooseveltinstitute.org

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• Our traditional systems of decision-making are just not up to preventing changes in fundamental earth systems that are driven by a constant barrage of individually negligible emissions of an invisible, odorless gas, by billions of people all over the world.

  Dale Jamieson

  People, Decision, Fundamentals

  Source: www.3ammagazine.com

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• I'm totally in favour of meeting our Paris commitments to reduce greenhouse gas emissions. But I don't think we should do that by making ourselves uncompetitive.

  Chris Alexander

  Commitment, Thinking, Paris

  Source: www.macleans.ca

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• I think we need to address greenhouse gas emissions. But I try to get involved in issues where I see a legislative result... So I just leave the issue alone because I don't see a way through it, and there are certain fundamentals, for example nuke power, that people on the left will never agree with me on. So why should I waste my time when I know the people on the left are going to reject nuclear power?

  John McCain

  Thinking, Issues, People

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• The struggle against poverty in the world and the challenge of cutting wealthy country emissions all has a single, very simple solution... Here it is: Put a price on carbon.

  Al Gore

  Country, Struggle, Cutting

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• Today, natural gas now outstrips coal as the leading provider of electricity in America. If this is as big as people believe it is, natural gas will soon be powering trucks and marine ships. Maybe even standard commercial cars that people use at home through compressed natural gas, other gas to liquids. The potential is there for more energy independence by America and a reliance on cleaner fuel - natural gas emits half as much as coal, in terms of carbon emissions. That's a real bounty.

  Thomas Friedman

  Real, Believe, Home

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• What we should do is require or at least permit innovators to license their green innovations free of charge in exchange for public payments based on the impact this innovation has on the environment - emissions averted or something of this sort.

  Thomas Pogge

  Impact, Innovation, Green

  Source: www.truth-out.org

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• In the current setting the situation of the poor is neglected despite the grotesque wealth of the capitalist elites, and the dangers to the well-being of humanity associated with climate change are ignored despite a strong scientific consensus warning of the adverse, and possibly irreversible, consequences of further delays in reducing the level of greenhouse gas emissions, especially carbon.

  Richard A. Falk

  Strong, Humanity, Delay

  Source: www.counterpunch.org

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• Capitalism is in crisis both morally, due to widening disparities of income and wealth and disclosures of abusive practices, and ecologically, due to its refusal to make business adjustments in accounting procedures that pass the consequences of emissions to the public and the future.

  Richard A. Falk

  Practice, Income, Wealth

  Source: www.counterpunch.org

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• If we don't start with rapid emissions reductions and substantial emissions reductions, then we will pass a danger point, beyond which the consequences for many people and countries on Earth will simply become unacceptable and eventually disastrous.

  Michael Oppenheimer

  Country, People, Earth

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• The largest source of greenhouse gases in the coming decades will not be the US, Western Europe and Japan, but the developing economies of East Asia, Latin America and Eastern Europe. The coming eruption of carbon emissions from the poor world will dwarf any reductions in the North.

  Ross Gelbspan

  Latin, Future, Carbon Emissions

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• In a perfect world global emissions would have peaked already. In a semi-perfect world we will peak on Dec. 31, 2020. The fact is, that's going to be difficult. We know that it's going to get more and more expensive the longer we delay.

  Christiana Figueres

  Perfect, Delay, World

  Source: www.slate.com

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• I think 99% of climate scientists would agree that we need to reduce emissions as quickly as possible, and then begin removing greenhouse gasses and carbon from the air. And if we don't do that we are looking at some range of catastrophe.

  Margaret D. Klein

  Thinking, Air, Climate

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• There is no set period of time or total amount of carbon emissions that we can stay below to ensure we stay safe.

  Katharine Hayhoe

  Carbon Emissions, Safe, Periods

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• Our carbon emissions have to eventually go to zero. We have to. Otherwise we're never going to have a stable climate and that's what our goal is for human civilization to thrive, a stable climate. We don't want one that's hotter, we don't want one that's colder, we want one that's stable.

  Katharine Hayhoe

  Zero, Civilization, Carbon Emissions

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• Raising the congestion charge won't necessarily make a difference. Rather than increasing the amount you pay in congestion charge, we should be thinking about an ultra low emission zone. We should penalise those cars who are the biggest polluters and reward cars that don't, like electric cars.

  Sadiq Khan

  Thinking, Differences, Car

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• How are we going to know what impact that has on the greenhouse gas emissions? How are we going to hold everybody accountable for doing their part?

  Christy Clark

  Impact, Gas, Greenhouses

  Source: www.macleans.ca

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• To put it in context, the federal government was, at the beginning [of the Vancouver meeting], talking about a $15-per-tonne floor for carbon emissions. We're at $30 a tonne, so we're already double that. But our economy is growing at a faster rate - three per cent of GDP is our projected growth in British Columbia.

  Christy Clark

  Government, Talking, Gdp

  Source: www.macleans.ca

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• We have climate change caused by greenhouse gas emissions, mostly from human power and transportation infrastructure. At the same time, we have 2 billion people who live in energy poverty.

  Ramez Naam

  People, Energy, Climate

  "Q&A with Ramez Naam: Dialogues on the Environment". Interview with Mark Tercek, bigthink.com.

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• You have to be able to generate usable energy without greenhouse gas emissions and you have to be able to do it cheaply if you want people to choose that approach.

  Ramez Naam

  People, Energy, Want

  "Q&A with Ramez Naam: Dialogues on the Environment". Interview with Mark Tercek, bigthink.com.

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• When I'm talking about a developing world, I also look at clean-water access - women who are more vulnerable to sexual violence when they're fetching water. And talking about what we have going on here, with our carbon footprints and our emissions, is just as important to me as figuring out how to provide clean water to people who need it in regions around the world.

  Sophia Bush

  Talking, Carbon Footprint, Water

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