Hans Joachim Schellnhuber Quotes

The first law of humanity is not to kill your children.

What is the difference between a 2°C world and a 4°C world? Human civilisation!

Neither transitions nor transformations will be manageable without novel forms of global governance and markets

The bottom billion people don't contribute at all to climate change - maybe 1 percent of emissions, they could double or triple their emissions and the climate would not be destabilised.

Don't ask what global climate protection can do for your country; ask what your country can do for climate protection.

We have 20 years [until 2026] to reduce carbon emissions or climate change will become irreversible.

When you imagine that if all these 9 billion people claim all these resources, then the earth will explode.

The planetary machinery tends to be jumpy, this is to respond disproportionately to disruptions that come with the manmade greenhouse effect.