The media when it focuses on climate change at all, does so in terms of carbon emissions and how to reduce them. Only rarely do our leaders advance arguments about adapting our environment and our economy to the effects of climate change that are already inevitable. Barry Gardiner Read Quote
Whilst the developed world may say it wants to see much greater commitment to reduce greenhouse gas emissions, this may only be politically feasible if there is strong support for adaptation measures in those countries at greatest immediate risk. Barry Gardiner Read Quote
Climate change is real and anthropogenic; and the 5th Assessment Report of the IPCC has left the deniers little room for manoeuvre, but they are swiftly morphing into a new breed that accept the climate is changing but like to suggest this may have positive benefits. Barry Gardiner Read Quote
The less money you have the more likely you are to live close to polluted roads. Most of us cannot choose to move further away from a main road or add another 40 minutes to our commute so that we can live in a quiet, clean, leafy street. Barry Gardiner Read Quote
Climate change is a threat to the conditions in which our economy can function at all. Barry Gardiner Read Quote
As the oceans get hotter, corals also become heat-stressed and expel the algae that live on their skeletons, resulting in coral bleaching events that can wipe out entire reefs. This destroys the habitat that supports a quarter of all marine life. Barry Gardiner Read Quote
Like air pollution, flood risk is a threat that government should be protecting us against. Barry Gardiner Read Quote
Dictators have an old trick to assess the strength of their opposition: they say something patently untrue, and then look to see who mindlessly repeats it. Those who do, they recognise as their true supporters. Barry Gardiner Read Quote
A well-functioning judicial or education system is just as much part of the wealth of a nation as its roads, ports and factories. Barry Gardiner Read Quote
