Ottmar Edenhofer quotes

We cannot afford to lose another decade. If we lose another decade, it becomes extremely costly to achieve climate stabilization.
-- Ottmar Edenhofer

#Climate #Achieve

It does not cost the world to save the planet,
-- Ottmar Edenhofer

#World #Doe #Cost

There is a clear message from science: To avoid dangerous interference with the climate system, we need to move away from business as usual.
-- Ottmar Edenhofer

#Moving #Climate #Usual

Climate change policy is about how we redistribute de facto the world’s wealth.
-- Ottmar Edenhofer

#Climate #World #Wealth

Climate policy has almost nothing to do anymore with environmental protection, says the German economist and IPCC official Ottmar Edenhofer. The next world climate summit in Cancun is actually an economy summit during which the distribution of the worlds resources will be negotiated.
-- Ottmar Edenhofer

#Environmental #World #Next

But one must say clearly that we redistribute de facto the world's wealth by climate policy...One has to free oneself from the illusion that international climate policy is environmental policy any more.
-- Ottmar Edenhofer

#Environmental #World #Energy

Climate change is a global commons problem.
-- Ottmar Edenhofer

#Climate #Problem #Climate Change

First of all, developed countries have basically expropriated the atmosphere of the world community. But one must say clearly that we redistribute de facto the world's wealth by climate policy. Obviously, the owners of coal and oil will not be enthusiastic about this. One has to free oneself from the illusion that international climate policy is environmental policy. This has almost nothing to do with environmental policy anymore...
-- Ottmar Edenhofer

#Country #Oil #Community

The warnings about global warming have been extremely clear for a long time. We are facing a global climate crisis. It is deepening. We are entering a period of consequences.

Each and every one of us can make changes in the way we live our lives and become part of the solution [to climate change]

Here is the truth: The Earth is round; Saddam Hussein did not attack us on 9/11; Elvis is dead; Obama was born in the United States; and the climate crisis is real.

I wish we could grow up about it, I'm sure we are contributing to global warming, and we must do all we can to reduce that, but our climate has always changed. The Romans had vineyards in Yorkshire. We're all on this bandwagon of 'Ban the 4x4 in Fulham'. Why didn't we have global warming during the Industrial Revolution? In those days you couldn't have seen across the street for all the carbon emissions and the crap coming out of the chimneys.

Rational argument does not create belief, but it maintains a climate in which belief may flourish.

We have received no single argument in favour of this document except political pressure. No link has been established between carbon dioxide emissions and climate change. No other objective facts have been presented in recent time. The IPCC's reports in 1990 and 1995 show it clearly.

For 10 years, I have fought passionately for climate protection.

I've got the 30 drive right now. You turn 30, I don't know, life is exciting again; thirties is when you've got it all figured out. You start reaching some of your goals, and achieving some great things.

You can't achieve anything without getting in someone's way. You can't be detached and effective.

People have been known to achieve more as a result of working with others than against them.