Climate change and politics

Nina de Ayala Parker

Inserted 2 years ago

“As Ugandan climate activist Vanessa Nakate noted in her recent book A Bigger Picture, species are going extinct at a rate greater than the time of the dinosaurs. And as Mia Mottley, Prime Minister of Barbados, explained in her opening speech at COP26, island nations are now facing a death sentence. One powerful solution to break this bloody chain of damage is to get “ecocide” recognised as a serious crime in international law.”

Aljazeera

Campaigner, political lobbyist, and justice activist who writes about feminism, European politics, and climate justice

09 Dec 2021 8 4

Yanis Varoufakis

Inserted 2 years ago

“What needs to be done? Two things at the very least. First, a complete shutdown of coalmines and new oil and gas rigs. If governments can lock us down to save lives during a pandemic, they can shut down the fossil fuel industry to save humanity. Second, we need a global carbon tax, to increase the relative price of everything that releases more carbon, and from which all proceeds should be returned to the poorer members of our species.”

Theguardian

Economist and politician - Co-founder of DiEM25 (Democracy in Europe Movement)

10 Nov 2021 7 6

Climate Action Tracker

Inserted 2 years ago

“Even with all new Glasgow pledges for 2030, we will emit roughly twice as much in 2030 as required for 1.5C. Policy implementation on the ground is advancing at a snail's pace. In an optimistic scenario where some countries' longer-term goals to stop increasing the level of greenhouse gases in the atmosphere - net zero - by 2050 or later were actually implemented, warming could be limited to 1.8C (3.2F) this century.”

Aljazeera

News released by Climate Action Tracker

09 Nov 2021 1 5

Titus Gwemende

Inserted 2 years ago

“When they say cut in Africa, what do they want to cut? There's nothing to cut here. African countries are the ones on the receiving end of this problem. It's the bigger emitters that should have the responsibility to cut. We should be sensitive to history.”

Nytimes

Zimbabwe-based climate director at the Open Society Foundation

09 Nov 2021 2 4

Navroz Dubash

Inserted 2 years ago

“The perception of India's announcement depends on the benchmark used. The 2070 net-zero target was diplomatically necessary - the last major economy to fall in the basket - but more a box to be checked under diplomatic pressure, and ideally should have been linked to developed countries reaching net zero before 2050.”

Aljazeera

Professor at the Centre for Policy Research

09 Nov 2021 2 5

Joe Biden

Inserted 2 years ago

“One of the most important things we can do between now and 2030, to keep 1.5C in reach, is reduce our methane emissions as soon as possible.”

Aljazeera

President of the United States

02 Nov 2021 3 4

Narendra Modi

Inserted 2 years ago

“By 2070, India will achieve the target of net-zero emissions. Instead of mindless and destructive consumption we need mindful and deliberate utilisation. These choices, made by billions of people, can take the fight against climate change one step further.”

Aljazeera

Prime Minister of India

01 Nov 2021 2 4

Jeong Sang-hoon

Inserted 2 years ago

“The target decided by the government [40 percent from 2018 levels by 2030] is very disappointing. To prevent the worst degree of climate change, we should immediately start reducing greenhouse gas emissions to significant levels and achieve at least a 50 percent reduction in 2030 from 2018 levels. If the government announces this target at COP26, it will face a cold reaction from international citizens. International investment institutions and global companies, which place importance on responses to climate change in their investment decisions, will also have doubts on the future of South Korea's economy.”

Koreatimes

Climate and energy campaigner at Greenpeace Korea

01 Nov 2021 5 4

Alok Sharma

Inserted 2 years ago

“We need to come out of Glasgow saying with credibility that we have kept 1.5 alive. We're already at global warming at 1.1 degrees above pre-industrial levels. At 1.5 there are countries in the world that will be underwater, and that's why we need to get an agreement here on how we tackle climate change over the next decade.”

Reuters

President of the 2021 United Nations Climate Change Conference (COP26)

31 Oct 2021 4 4

Boris Johnson

Inserted 2 years ago

“There is absolutely no question that this is a reality we must face. I would say that humanity as a whole is about 5-1 down at half-time. We've got a long way to go, but we can do it. We have the ability to come back but it's going to take a huge amount of effort. Team World is up against a very formidable opponent in climate change. Rome's ancient monuments could be seen as a memento mori to us, demonstrating how quickly civilisations can decline. Humanity, civilisation, society, can go backwards as well as forwards, and when things start to go wrong they can go wrong at extraordinary speed. You saw that with the decline and fall of the Roman empire, and I'm afraid to say that it's true today that unless we get this right in tackling climate change, we could see our civilisation, our world also go backwards.”

Theguardian

UK Prime Minister

29 Oct 2021 3 4

Ling Tao

Inserted 2 years ago

“The DPP [Democratic Progressive Party] should accept responsibility for power outages on May 13 and 17, and July 27. The outages tested the confidence of Taiwanese enterprises and inconvenienced the public. The government's dependence on coal-fired power plants has harmed public health and taken the nation further from the international effort to fight climate change. The government did not improve the economy, livelihoods or environmental sustainability - failures for which any politician except Su [Taiwan Premier - Su Tseng-chang] would have resigned. The public knows how little credibility Su has to cast aspersions.”

Taipeitimes

Taiwanese politician - KMT Culture and Communications Committee director-general

29 Oct 2021 8 4

Janet Yellen

Inserted 2 years ago

“I plan to shortly convene the heads of the MDBs [ Multilateral Development Bank] to articulate our expectations that the MDBs align their portfolios with the Paris Agreement and net-zero goals as urgently as possible. We also expect them to take steps to more effectively mobilize private capital so that developing countries can increasingly benefit from private sector pledges to support climate-aligned and sustainable investments. As leading sources of official finance, the MDBs need to maximize the catalytic impact of their support for countries seeking to confront a changing climate, and to harness the economic opportunities embedded in the transition to a low-carbon economy.”

Reuters

United States Secretary of the Treasury

11 Jul 2021 3 5

Peter Meijer

Inserted 3 years ago

“Plenty of members of the [Republican] conference are still in perpetual skeptic mode. When you talk to younger conservatives, the issue of climate is No 1 or 2, but for older generations that's not the case. It's important for the future of our country and the party we stop viewing it as a partisan issue. It's moving a very large ship a matter of degrees. It won't happen overnight. Climate is one of the areas I was concerned about in terms of the long-term trajectory of the party. We are seeing first steps in messaging and proposals. There's a recognition that we have not been on the right side of this and we need to get on the right side of this.”

Theguardian

Member of the Republican Party - U.S. Representative for Michigan

14 May 2021 1 5

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“When they say cut in Africa, what do they want to cut? There's nothing to cut here. African countries are the ones on the receiving end of this problem. It's the bigger emitters that should have the responsibility to cut. We should be sensitive to history.”

“One of the most important things we can do between now and 2030, to keep 1.5C in reach, is reduce our methane emissions as soon as possible.”

“By 2070, India will achieve the target of net-zero emissions. Instead of mindless and destructive consumption we need mindful and deliberate utilisation. These choices, made by billions of people, can take the fight against climate change one step further.”

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