Nicholas Stern Quotes

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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.

    Father   Fighting   Hands  
  • The greenhouse effect is something you can observe experimentally - and most people have observed the greenhouse effect themselves, in greenhouses. Yes?

    "'We're the first generation that has had the power to destroy the planet. Ignoring that risk can only be described as reckless'". Interview with Decca Aitkenhead, www.theguardian.com. March 29, 2009.
  • The US will increasingly see the risks of being left behind, and ten years from now they would have to start worrying about being shut out of markets because their production is dirty.

    Dirty   Years   Worry  
  • Adaptation can efficiently reduce the costs of climate change while atmospheric concentrations of greenhouse gases are being stabilised

    Nicholas Stern, Great Britain. Treasury (2007). “The Economics of Climate Change: The Stern Review”, p.346, Cambridge University Press
  • A diet that relies heavily on meat production results in higher emissions than a typical vegetarian diet. Different individuals will make different choices. However, the debate about climate change should not be dumbed down to a single slogan, such as 'give up meat to save the planet.

    Go green, go vegan" by Chris Goodall, www.theguardian.com. October 27, 2009.
  • You'd see more floods like you've seen in Mozambique in 2000, you'd see more droughts like you saw in Kenya in the late 1990s, there would be a serious threat to the water flow down the Nile on which 10 countries depend.

    Country   Weather   Water  
  • We will not overcome world poverty unless we manage climate change successfully. I've spent my life as a development economist, and it's crystal clear that we succeed or fail on winning the battle against world poverty and managing climate change together. If we fail on one, we fail on the other.

    "'We're the first generation that has had the power to destroy the planet. Ignoring that risk can only be described as reckless'". Interview with Decca Aitkenhead, www.theguardian.com. March 29, 2009.
  • 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.

    War   Moving   Talking  
  • We run enormous risks and we know what kind of reductions of greenhouse gases are necessary to drastically reduce risks. Reducing emissions by half by 2050 is roughly in the right ballpark. It would bring us below 550 ppm.

    Running   Risk   Half  
    "Clash: Sir Nicholas Stern". Interview with David Biello, www.scientificamerican.com. November 26, 2007.
  • 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.

    War   Two   Risk  
  • Fortunately poorer countries, such as China, are showing leadership and beginning to demonstrate to the world how to invest in low-carbon growth.

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

    Cancer   People   Smoking  
    "Stern: Climate change deniers are 'flat-earthers'" by Sunny Hundal, www.theguardian.com. March 10, 2009.
  • As an undergraduate, I did maths and physics. That doesn't make me a scientist. So I try to read and understand and talk to scientists.

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

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

    Risk   Climate   Demand  
    "Buying carbon credits cost-effective and necessary". www.irishtimes.com. December 14, 2006.
  • Science and policy-making thrive on challenge and questioning; they are vital to the health of inquiry and democracy.

    "The point of no return" by Nicholas Stern, www.theguardian.com. March 29, 2009.
  • It's very important that there should be cross-fertilisation between government and academia. Both parties can benefit from having a better understanding of how the other works.

  • 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.

    "The Cost Benefit Analysis of Climate Change Legislation: Future Generations Will Thank You" by H. A. Goodman, www.huffingtonpost.com. May 22, 2014.
  • We can look back through ice-core data and see over 800,000 years, relationships between carbon dioxide and the temperature of the world. So those people who deny the importance of climate change are just wasting their time. They're also being diversionary because if we don't act the risks are enormous.

    Years   Ice   Data  
    "Stern: Climate change deniers are 'flat-earthers'" by Sunny Hundal, www.theguardian.com. March 10, 2009.
  • If coal is going to be used, the only response - because it is the dirtiest of all fuels - is that we have to learn how to do carbon capture and storage and we have to learn how to do it quickly on a commercial scale.

    Coal   Fuel   Used  
    "Nicholas Stern: We must not give in to pessimism" by James Randerson, www.theguardian.com. April 22, 2009.
  • There is still time to avoid the worst impacts of climate change, if we take strong action now.

    Strong   Impact   Climate  
    Nicholas Stern (2007). “The Economics of Climate Change: The Stern Review”, p.19, Cambridge University Press
  • The one way of guaranteeing to fail is to assume that we will.

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

    Play   Two   Climate  
  • The record rainfall and storm surges that have brought flooding across the UK are a clear sign that we are already experiencing the impacts of climate change.

    Impact   Storm   Climate  
    "Climate change is here now and it could lead to global conflict" by Nicholas Stern, www.theguardian.com. February 14, 2014.
  • Adaptation is the only means to reduce the now-unavoidable costs of climate change over the next few decades

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

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

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

  • 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.

    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
  • 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.

    Voice   Faces   Climate  
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