Gina McCarthy Quotes

A knowledgeable and courageous U.S. president could help enormously in leading the world's nations toward saving the climate.

A global deal will only be possible if Britain plays its part, leading the way with other developed countries.

The United States is the only nation that can lead the world toward a solution on climate change.

I'd love to have a president who really was out there leading and traveling around the world campaigning for joint climate change action. Even the Chinese government is trying to get people to stop polluting. And I think the federal government level in China is acting more responsibly than the American government.

The world can't have a global solution to climate change with U.S. action alone; and the world can't have a global solution without U.S. action.

Instead of sitting on the sidelines, President Obama has made it clear that the US is ready to lead a global effort to combat climate change.

China is committed to work with other countries for a solution to the global challenge of energy and resources.

Countries have made impressive pledges to cut carbon pollution, but we have to ensure these promises become actions.

The American people know that climate change is the kind of problem only America can solve.

Every state that addresses climate change emboldens the others, just as shifting public attitudes embolden politicians and, arguably, the court system.

If Trump wants to withdraw the U.S. from the Paris climate agreement, the rest of the world should impose a carbon-adjustment tax on U.S. exports that do not comply with global standards.

Very strong declarations were made by those countries who are most responsible for global warming... the United States and China, which undertook commitments towards changing the situation.

I believe climate change is real and that we can save our planet while creating millions of good-paying clean energy jobs.

The effects of climate change are real and only getting worse. I would like to build on the promises of the Paris Climate Agreement and make our country a global leader on the fight against climate change.

Climate change demands a collective response. We can't expect other countries to act if we don't.

I've been working with every single government since June 1992 to try to get climate action.

I would immediately rejoin the Paris Accords and reassert U.S. leadership in the critical process of global diplomacy.

Even if Trump leaves the Paris Agreement or the U.N. climate process entirely, the issue will be unavoidable at G7 and G20 level.

To improve humanity's chances of survival, it is critical that Canada assume a leadership role, first ramping up our own ambition and then pushing for more ambition overall in global negotiations.

If every country's climate policy was driven purely by environmental science, we may have no need for international agreements.

The targets we all agree on - every country in the world except the U.S., Nicaragua, and Syria - will have targets under the Paris Agreement. So everyone knows what the targets should be, and then we can have a difference of opinion on exactly how these emissions will be reduced.

The Paris agreement represents a huge step forward. It would have been preferable, of course, to start the process many years earlier, and a lot of question marks remain on how nations will ratify it, adhere to it and report their carbon reductions. But this is a remarkable ray of hope for our planet.

The Paris Agreement threw people of the world a lifeline, and the United States played a vital role in getting us there, not least by working closely with China to clear the decks to a global deal.

The countries in the Paris climate accord have broken almost every promise they've made, and the nation (the U.S.) that hasn't signed the treaty is doing more than any other nation to reduce global warming.

The United States must lead the world in reversing climate change. We can do that.