100 Quotes by Barry Gardiner

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.

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.

Climate change is a threat to the conditions in which our economy can function at all.

You cannot send battleships in to stop the destruction of a rainforest. But you can spend money on clean technology transfer that enables countries to bring their people out of poverty without polluting their future.

We as politicians have to understand that the greatest threats to our security are no longer conventional military ones. You cannot nuke a famine.

Climate change brings pressures that will influence resource competition between nations and place additional burdens on economies, societies and governance institutions around the globe. These effects are threat multipliers.

The degradation of natural resources such as forests and freshwater has removed much of the resilience that societies formerly enjoyed.

Understanding government can be a complex business. The stated reason for a policy and the real reason for it are rarely the same.

If government is so keen to let local people have a veto in stopping wind farms, why does it not allow local people to say no to fracking?