Top Kyoto Protocol Quotes Collection

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We've got to ride the global-warming issue. Even if the theory of global warming is wrong, we will be doing the right thing in terms of economic policy and environmental policy.
- Tim Wirth
Collection: Kyoto Protocol
Image of Andrey Illarionov
Ideology on which the Kyoto Protocol is based, is a new form of totalitarian ideology, along with Marxism, Communism and socialism.
- Andrey Illarionov
Collection: Kyoto Protocol
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We have received no single argument in favour of this document except political pressure. No link has been established between carbon dioxide emissions and climate change. No other objective facts have been presented in recent time. The IPCC's reports in 1990 and 1995 show it clearly.
- Andrey Illarionov
Collection: Kyoto Protocol
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Three scenarios for post-Kyoto emissions reductions indicate that ... the long-term consequences are small... The influence of the Protocol would, furthermore, be undetectable for many decades.
- Tom Wigley
Collection: Kyoto Protocol
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Nobody is going to give away the farm in Kyoto. It is not anybody's to give away. And even if the United States Senate would actually ratify a bad treaty, anything called for under the treaty would require legislation passed through both houses.
- Thomas Schelling
Collection: Kyoto Protocol
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It is becoming increasingly clear that the targets in the Kyoto Protocol cannot and will not be met on the established timetable in the United States and elsewhere.
- Eileen Claussen
Collection: Kyoto Protocol
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The strategy behind the Kyoto Protocol has no grounding in economics or environmental policy.
- William Nordhaus
Collection: Kyoto Protocol
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Sensible policies on global warming should weight the costs of slowing climate change against the benefits of slower climate change. Ironically, recent policy initiatives, such as the Kyoto Protocol of 1997, have been introduced without any attempt to link the emissions controls with the benefits of the lower emissions.
- William Nordhaus
Collection: Kyoto Protocol
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It will be nearly impossible to slow warming appreciably without condemning much of the world to poverty unless energy sources that emit little or no carbon dioxide become competitive with conventional fossil fuels.
- Henry Sylvester Jacoby
Collection: Kyoto Protocol
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The different policies reduce damages by only a modest amount. Indeed, one of the surprises is how little the policies affect the damages from global warming. The reasons are that, because there is so much inertia in the climate system and because the Protocol reduced the global temperature increase by only a fraction of a degree over the next century.
- Henry Sylvester Jacoby
Collection: Kyoto Protocol
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Kyoto is likely to yield far less than the targeted emissions reduction. That failure will most likely be papered over with creative accounting, shifting definitions of carbon sinks, and so on. If this happens, the credibility of the international process for addressing climate change will be at risk.
- Henry Sylvester Jacoby
Collection: Kyoto Protocol
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When the Kyoto Protocol enters into the force tomorrow, the world will take a significant and long-awaited first step towards stemming global warming. Instead of stepping forward as the world leader on climate change, however, the Bush Administration is clinging to the role of world obstructionist.
- Nancy Pelosi
Collection: Kyoto Protocol
Image of Jacques Chirac
For the first time, humanity is instituting a genuine instrument Kyoto Protocol of global governance,"..."By acting together, by building this unprecedented instrument, the first component of an authentic global governance, we are working for dialogue and peace.
- Jacques Chirac
Collection: Kyoto Protocol
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Carbon dioxide does not cause or contribute to smog, and the Kyoto treaty would do nothing to reduce or prevent smog.
- Stephen Harper
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Redirect federal spending aimed at fulfilling the terms of the increasingly irrelevant Kyoto Protocol.
- Stephen Harper
Collection: Kyoto Protocol