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"It is clear that a failure to address climate change
is a failure to protect children. Those who have
contributed least to climate change - the world's
poorest children - are suffering the most. If the
world does not act now to mitigate and adapt t
the risks and realities of climate change, we wil
seriously hamper efforts to reach the Millennill
Development Goals (MDGs) by 2015 and sustF
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David Bull, UNICEF UK Director
"Producing biofuels is a crime against humanity"
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Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva
urging middle class... demands lots of energy
it is our job to ensure comfortable supply."
Vsevolod Gavrilov, the official in charge of Russia's Kyoto obligations
"The climate debate has become a series of
disconnected discussions. It's odd how intelligent
people can continue to argue like this in the face
of such stark evidence. (...) We run the risk of the
greatest policy failure in the history of mankind."
UNEP Executive Director Achim Steiner"Africa's future need not be entrenched in
vulnerability and hopelessness in the face of climate
change. I believe Africa has extraordinary potential
and opportunity to contribute to sustainable
development and thereby set an example for the
ist of the world"
Balgis Osman-Elasha, senior climate change scientist from Sudan
who was awarded UNEP's 2008 Champions of the Earth award
e can all take practical steps to be more
.ergy-efficient and we all have lots to learn in
ie coming years on how to improve our carbon
Ellen MacArthur, solo round-the-world sailor
ie woria we nave created toClay as a result oi our
talking thus far has created problems that cannot
)e solved by thinking the way we thought when we
Amtrl them "
Albert Einsteinpercentage of total global
of carbon dioxide emissions
produced by shipping tonnes o
- Institute for Physics and househ
Atmosphere in Wessling, Germany making
making
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Sustaina
number of years during which coal will
be available at current production levels.
This compares to 41 years for oil and pE
65 years for gas - World Coal institute
barrels of oil China will need every day by 2031
if it uses oil at the rate that Americans do today.
Current total world production is about 85 million
barrels daily - Earth Policy Institutef CO2 that the average UK
lId could save annually by
its home energy-efficient
Id Business Council for
able Developmenttons of standard coal used for every
10,000 yuan of GDP in China in 2006.
Energy consumption in 1980 was 3.39 tons
per 10,000 yuan of GDP - 'Kick the habit:
the UN guide to climate neutrality'ercentage of world trade which is carried by sea
- Institute for Physics and Atmosphere in Wessling, Germany
percentage of global energy supply consumed by
personal and commercial transport. 80 per cent of
this comes from fossil fuels - 'Kick the habit: the UN
guide to climate neutrality'percentage growth in the Earth's
population since 1987. Global economic
output has risen by 76 per cent over the
same period - 'Kick the habit: the UN
guide to climate neutrality'percentage of global energy used by heating,
cooling and lighting homes and using
household appliances - World Business
Council for Sustainable Development
rise of atmospheric CO2 concentration in parts per million
(ppm) over the last two centuries of human industry. Over the
previous 610,000 years, long-term change in atmospheric CO,
concentration was just 22 ppm - Nature Geoscience8 TOWARDS A LOW CARBON ECONOMY
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