Quotes by Nicholas Stern - Page 1

Give up meat to save the planet.
Nicholas Stern / Economist
Climate Change
Giving Up
Meat
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The one way of guaranteeing to fail is to assume that we will.
Nicholas Stern / Economist
Assuming
Failing
Way
Assume
Fail
Guaranteeing
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Adaptation is a vital part of a response to the challenge of climate change
Nicholas Stern / Economist
Adaptation
Challenges
Climate
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To claim the World Bank is just an extension of US foreign policy is just wrong.
Nicholas Stern / Economist
Claims
Foreign Policy
World
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To claim the World Bank is just an extension of U.S. foreign policy is just wrong.
Nicholas Stern / Economist
Foreign Policy
World Bank
Bank
Claim
Extension
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Climate change represents the greatest and widest-ranging market failure ever seen
Nicholas Stern / Economist
Climate
Climate Change
Market Failure
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I've never really had much of a career plan, and interesting opportunities kept cropping up.
Nicholas Stern / Economist
Opportunity
Careers
Interesting
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There is still time to avoid the worst impacts of climate change, if we take strong action now.
Nicholas Stern / Economist
Climate
Impact
Strong
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Adaptation is the only means to reduce the now-unavoidable costs of climate change over the next few decades
Nicholas Stern / Economist
Climate
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Mean
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Science and policy-making thrive on challenge and questioning; they are vital to the health of inquiry and democracy.
Nicholas Stern / Economist
Challenges
Democracy
Inquiry
Policy Making
Questioning
Thrive
Challenge
Vital
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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
Nicholas Stern / Economist
Climate Change
Politician
Thinking
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Adaptation can efficiently reduce the costs of climate change while atmospheric concentrations of greenhouse gases are being stabilised
Nicholas Stern / Economist
Adaptation
Climate
Cost
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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.
Nicholas Stern / Economist
Math
Physics
Scientist
Trying
Undergraduate
Maths
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The scientific evidence is now overwhelming: climate change presents very serious global risks, and it demands an urgent global response.
Nicholas Stern / Economist
Climate
Demand
Risk
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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?
Nicholas Stern / Economist
Climate
Play
Two
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Fortunately poorer countries, such as China, are showing leadership and beginning to demonstrate to the world how to invest in low-carbon growth.
Nicholas Stern / Economist
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Growth
World
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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.
Nicholas Stern / Economist
Diet
Enormous
Greenhouse Gases
Meat
Pressure
Resources
Vegetarian Diet
Water
Wasteful
Creates
Enormous Pressure
Gases
Greenhouse
Puts
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The greenhouse effect is something you can observe experimentally - and most people have observed the greenhouse effect themselves, in greenhouses. Yes?
Nicholas Stern / Economist
Effects
Greenhouses
People
Effect
Greenhouse
Observe
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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.
Nicholas Stern / Economist
War
Risk
Two
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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.
Nicholas Stern / Economist
War
Moving
Talking
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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.
Nicholas Stern / Economist
Climate
Impact
Storm
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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
Nicholas Stern / Economist
Climate Change
Currents
Levels
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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.
Nicholas Stern / Economist
Challenges
Together
Two Sides
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A rise of 5C would be a temperature the world has not seen for 30 to 50 million years. We've been around only 100,000 years as human beings. We don't know what that's like.
Nicholas Stern / Economist
World
Would Be
Years
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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.
Nicholas Stern / Economist
Government
Academia
Party
Understanding
Benefit
Better Understanding
Both Parties
Parties
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If you look at all the serious scientists in the world, there is no big disagreement on the basics of this...it would be absolute lunacy to act as if climate change is not occurring.
Nicholas Stern / Economist
Science
Climate
Energy
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If you look at all the serious scientists in the world, there is no big disagreement on the basics of this... it would be absolute lunacy to act as if climate change is not occurring.
Nicholas Stern / Economist
Basics
Climate Change
Disagreement
Lunacy
Absolute
Change World Look
Change Look World
Scientists
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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.
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Dirty
Worry
Years
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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.
Nicholas Stern / Economist
Climate Change
Crisis
Fascism
Father
Fighting
Hands
Harder
Obvious
Generation
Ours
Solution
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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.
Nicholas Stern / Economist
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Growth
Progress
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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.
Nicholas Stern / Economist
Climate
Climate Change
Greenhouse Gases
Heat
Humans
Robust
Simple
Basic
Conclusions
Effect
Gases
Good Reason
Greenhouse
Scientific
Trap
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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.
Nicholas Stern / Economist
Capture
Carbon
Coal
Fuel
Response
Storage
Used
Scale
Commercial
Dirtiest
Fuels
Quickly
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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.
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Water
Weather
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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.
Nicholas Stern / Economist
Aids
Cancer
Climate Change
Denied
Hiv
People
Smoking
Understood
Change People Climate
Link
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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.
Nicholas Stern / Economist
Running
Emissions
Enormous
Greenhouse Gases
Half
Risk
Ballpark
Below
Drastically
Gases
Greenhouse
Reduce
Roughly
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Enlightened self-interest from those involved in hydrocarbons should lead to the support of technologies enabling the clean use of hydrocarbons, such as carbon capture and storage, and not to the defence of deniers and cranks.
Nicholas Stern / Economist
Technology
Capture
Carbon
Clean
Defence
Enabling
Enlightened
Self
Self Interest
Storage
Support
Technologies
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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.
Nicholas Stern / Economist
Business
Atmosphere
Risk
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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.
Nicholas Stern / Economist
Environmental
War
Impact
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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.
Nicholas Stern / Economist
People
Suffering
Water
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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.
Nicholas Stern / Economist
Choices
Giving Up
Vegetarian Diet
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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.'
Nicholas Stern / Economist
Diet
Choices
Climate Change
Debate
Emissions
Meat
Typical
Slogan
Individuals
Save
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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.
Nicholas Stern / Economist
Battle
Clear
Climate Change
Development
Economist
Manage
Poverty
Succeed
Together
Winning
Overcome
Crystal
Fail
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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.
Nicholas Stern / Economist
Carbon
Carbon Dioxide
Climate
Climate Change
Data
Deny
Enormous
Ice
Importance
Temperature
Years
Time Change World
Change Time World
Change Time Look
Wasting
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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.
Nicholas Stern / Economist
Science
Climate
Climate Change
Deny
Evidence
Experts
Faces
Overwhelming
Remarkable
Scientific Evidence
Voice
Face
Change Science Climate
Dangers
Set
Politicians
Economists
Journalists
Loudest
Scientific
Surprisingly
Themselves
Voices
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I think that once people understand the great risks that climate change poses, they will naturally want to choose products and services that cause little or no emissions of greenhouse gases, which means 'low-carbon consumption.' This will apply across the board, including electricity, heating, transport and food.
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Climate
Climate Change
Consumption
Electricity
Emissions
Greenhouse Gases
Heating
Including
Mean
People
Products
Thinking
Transport
Change Food Great
Understand
Across
Naturally
Apply
Board
Cause
Choose
Gases
Greenhouse
Poses
Risks
Services
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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.
Nicholas Stern / Economist
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Attitude
Carbon
Drinking
Eating
Notion
Attitudes
Content
Student
Towards
Increasingly
People Change
Radically
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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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