Global Agreement Quotes

Justice has nothing to do with victor nations and vanquished nations, but must be a moral standard that all the world's peoples can agree to.

The U.S. withdrawal from the Kyoto protocol endangers the entire process.

In accommodation with other Powers, differences of opinion must be looked for, even those most agreed on the same general views.

Under the Paris agreement, every one of the 147 signatories issues what is called an 'intended nationally determined contribution' (INDC), which amounts to a promise that the nation will take certain actions to reduce greenhouse-gas emissions by a certain date.

The Kyoto treaty has an estimated cost of between US$150 and $350 billion a year, starting in 2010.

The traffic in slaves is a matter on which all sects and nations have agreed from the time of the sons of Adam ... up to this day.

There is no reason why agreement on particular points should not be both possible and advantageous to the so-called neutrals and to one or more of the blocs, either existing or in the process of formation, within the League of Nations.

Look, if anybody still wants to dispute the science around climate change, have at it. You'll be pretty lonely, because you'll be debating our military, most of America's business leaders, the majority of the American people, almost the entire scientific community, and 200 nations around the world who agree it's a problem and intend to solve it.

Justice has nothing to do with victor nations and vanquished nations, but must be a moral standard that all the world's peoples can agree to. To seek this and to achieve it - that is true civilization.

This is global governance in the making. But we must agree, and agree to a binding commitment.

The Paris pact was correctly described by its opponents - greens and anti-greens alike - as toothless. But it was also the first time that nations around the world had officially agreed that climate change was a problem and that concrete steps should be taken to avoid its worst effects.

I think everybody in the world should agree to no care about anything. But we'll all have to do it at the same time.

Kyoto was a flawed process. There isn't one industrialized country around the world that has ratified that treaty, and so that is a non-starter.

Eventually we'll use a CO2 tax offset by a reduction in taxes elsewhere alongside a cap-and-trade plan, but the degree of difficulty associated with a CO2 tax far exceeds that with a cap-and-trade plan. We're seeing it's hard to get a cap-and-trade plan and it's much easier to use as a basis for a global agreement than a CO2 tax.

We face a climate crisis now that is the most serious challenge our civilization has ever confronted. And the greatest country in the world [America] has to remain a part of this unprecedented global agreement to deal with it.

It will be up to Congress to check the president's ambition of committing the U.S. to an international green scheme that will produce little or no return.

The seas need their own Kyoto Protocol.

But in every matter the consensus of opinion among all nations is to be regarded as the law of nature.

In physics there's the old law for every action there's a equal amount of reaction. Sometimes that's true in politics. If somebody's out there making nonsensical statements, but wielding power behind them a lot of people say, "Well, I need to react to that." Another reason for the increased prominence of the climate-change issue is the Paris Agreement itself. It's not a small thing when just about every nation in the entire world comes together and makes an historic agreement like this. It's a big deal. And the old cliché "The train is leaving the station" kind of applies.

How can you possibly have an international agreement that's effective unless countries like China and India are not full participants?