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Japan cannot excuse itself in Paris COP21 by saying 'sorry we don't have nuclear power so we can't reduce CO2 emissions'. – Nobuo Tanaka	Found on Reuters 9 years ago
The Elliot State Forest is tied to the common school fund and must provide revenue for that fund, if it is not going to provide revenue – and recently it has not been – then some other solution must be found. – State Lands spokeswoman Julie Curtis	Found on Reuters 9 years ago
Some parties have unfortunately reverted to standard positions. – Commissioner Miguel Arias Cañete	Found on Reuters 9 years ago
There were fissures in the wall and now they have been broken open. – Nathaniel Keohane	Found on Reuters 9 years ago
There is really a lack of resources - communities are dying. – Moutari Abdoul Madjid	Found on Reuters 9 years ago
We can't delay action anymore - it's been too slow, we have to lay the table here in Lima... for Paris. – Yolanda Kakabadse	Found on Reuters 9 years ago
I think is good that these contractions arise regarding climate change, climate change will force the institutions to work (together) in a more functional way. – Pedro Solano	Found on Reuters 9 years ago
There is a sort of internal conflict about the direction the country should take regarding development. – Pedro Solano	Found on Reuters 9 years ago
(This proposal) goes against the spirit of the efficient use of energy resources. – Pablo Corredor	Found on Reuters 9 years ago
India is in a completely different economic situation from China. – Robert Stavins	Found on Reuters 9 years ago
We don't have experience with something of this scale. Clean-up could take months, it could take years. – Tali Tenenbaum	Found on Reuters 9 years ago
We cannot allow the fossil fuel industry, whose products are the main cause of climate change, to take the limited funds intended for responding to the devastating impacts of climate change, renewable energy must be prioritized in the distribution of climate funding and fossil fuels excluded. – Samantha Smith	Found on Reuters 9 years ago
We can't tell whether or not El Nino will continue until spring, but we can say that there is a higher chance of it continuing in the winter. – Ikuo Yoshikawa	Found on Reuters 9 years ago
I've made various comments some time ago but as we've seen things develop over the last few months I think it's fair and reasonable for the government to make a modest, prudent and proportionate commitment to this climate mitigation fund. – Tony Abbott	Found on Reuters 9 years ago
The two go together. – Ed Davey	Found on Reuters 9 years ago
But the window of opportunity is fast narrowing. – Ban Ki-moon	Found on Reuters 9 years ago
This is not a time for tinkering; it is a time for transformation. – Ban Ki-moon	Found on Reuters 9 years ago
We must act now. – Ban Ki-moon	Found on Reuters 9 years ago
We know the ‘Big One’ is coming, it's a matter of when. If we're unprepared, the effects could be devastating, these things come with real costs, but we cannot afford not to pay them. – Eric Garcetti	Found on Reuters 9 years ago
The U.S. is perfectly happy to have a consultative process. – Todd Stern	Found on Reuters 9 years ago
We had a concern from the beginning that we didn’t want to scare countries off ... The most important part of this idea is sunshine. You encourage countries to be ambitious because they don’t want to look bad. – Todd Stern	Found on Reuters 9 years ago
We cannot express how tragic this loss is for the struggling, precariously small family of resident orcas in the Salish Sea. – Orca Network	Found on Reuters 9 years ago
It is devastating to see. – Naoko Ishii	Found on Reuters 9 years ago
My next target is how to put economic value to this natural capital and how to link it up to the international institutions, capital markets. – Naoko Ishii	Found on Reuters 9 years ago

Japan cannot excuse itself in Paris COP21 by saying 'sorry we don't have nuclear power so we can't reduce CO2 emissions'.

– Nobuo Tanaka

Found on Reuters
9 years ago

The Elliot State Forest is tied to the common school fund and must provide revenue for that fund, if it is not going to provide revenue – and recently it has not been – then some other solution must be found.

– State Lands spokeswoman Julie Curtis

Found on Reuters
9 years ago

Some parties have unfortunately reverted to standard positions.

– Commissioner Miguel Arias Cañete

Found on Reuters
9 years ago

There were fissures in the wall and now they have been broken open.

– Nathaniel Keohane

Found on Reuters
9 years ago

There is really a lack of resources - communities are dying.

– Moutari Abdoul Madjid

Found on Reuters
9 years ago

We can't delay action anymore - it's been too slow, we have to lay the table here in Lima... for Paris.

– Yolanda Kakabadse

Found on Reuters
9 years ago

I think is good that these contractions arise regarding climate change, climate change will force the institutions to work (together) in a more functional way.

– Pedro Solano

Found on Reuters
9 years ago

There is a sort of internal conflict about the direction the country should take regarding development.

– Pedro Solano

Found on Reuters
9 years ago

(This proposal) goes against the spirit of the efficient use of energy resources.

– Pablo Corredor

Found on Reuters
9 years ago

India is in a completely different economic situation from China.

– Robert Stavins

Found on Reuters
9 years ago

We don't have experience with something of this scale. Clean-up could take months, it could take years.

– Tali Tenenbaum

Found on Reuters
9 years ago

We cannot allow the fossil fuel industry, whose products are the main cause of climate change, to take the limited funds intended for responding to the devastating impacts of climate change, renewable energy must be prioritized in the distribution of climate funding and fossil fuels excluded.

– Samantha Smith

Found on Reuters
9 years ago

We can't tell whether or not El Nino will continue until spring, but we can say that there is a higher chance of it continuing in the winter.

– Ikuo Yoshikawa

Found on Reuters
9 years ago

I've made various comments some time ago but as we've seen things develop over the last few months I think it's fair and reasonable for the government to make a modest, prudent and proportionate commitment to this climate mitigation fund.

– Tony Abbott

Found on Reuters
9 years ago

The two go together.

– Ed Davey

Found on Reuters
9 years ago

But the window of opportunity is fast narrowing.

– Ban Ki-moon

Found on Reuters
9 years ago

This is not a time for tinkering; it is a time for transformation.

– Ban Ki-moon

Found on Reuters
9 years ago

We must act now.

– Ban Ki-moon

Found on Reuters
9 years ago

We know the ‘Big One’ is coming, it's a matter of when. If we're unprepared, the effects could be devastating, these things come with real costs, but we cannot afford not to pay them.

– Eric Garcetti

Found on Reuters
9 years ago

The U.S. is perfectly happy to have a consultative process.

– Todd Stern

Found on Reuters
9 years ago

We had a concern from the beginning that we didn’t want to scare countries off ... The most important part of this idea is sunshine. You encourage countries to be ambitious because they don’t want to look bad.

– Todd Stern

Found on Reuters
9 years ago

We cannot express how tragic this loss is for the struggling, precariously small family of resident orcas in the Salish Sea.

– Orca Network

Found on Reuters
9 years ago

It is devastating to see.

– Naoko Ishii

Found on Reuters
9 years ago

My next target is how to put economic value to this natural capital and how to link it up to the international institutions, capital markets.

– Naoko Ishii

Found on Reuters
9 years ago

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