Carbon Quotes

A low-carbon, clean energy economy can be an engine of growth for decades to come.

Alone among businesses, the fossil-fuel industry is allowed to dump its main waste, carbon dioxide, for free.

The total efforts of the last 20 years of climate policy has likely reduced global emissions by less than 1 percent, or about 250 million metric tons of carbon dioxide per year.

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

The fact is fossil fuel carbon will stay in the surface climate system for millennia.

I've done everything I can as a United States Senator to educate myself on the carbon issue and the climate change issue.

I don't rule out the possibility of legislating a Carbon Pollution Reduction Scheme, a market-based mechanism.

I don't think any Australian will ever forget, there will never be a Carbon Tax under a government I lead.

An extremely effective instrument would be to put a price on carbon. It is only through the market that you can get a large enough and rapid enough response [to climate change]

Suicide by carbon monoxide used to be done in the garage. Now, all you have to do is go to Mexico City and inhale.

I don't believe in a price on carbon, because the government is going to control it and they're going to fail.

hen the price of carbon reaches $100 a tonne, then it will become an economically viable business proposition to start taking CO₂ out of the atmosphere and sequestering it underground.

Workers are not going to be fobbed off with a few shares...or by a carbon copy of the German system of co-determination.

We're going to bake this planet, and be a curse to all species, including our own, if we don't find an alternative to carbon-based fuel. That's the #1 problem.

Carbon in your body - that's good thing. In a tree, it's good. In the atmosphere, it's a bad. Nature wants to sequester carbon in biota. And when we burn it, we release it. It's the wrong system.

Many scientists and economists also say putting a price on carbon through carbon taxes and/or cap-and-trade is necessary.

The Kyoto theorists have put the cart before the horse. It is global warming that triggers higher levels of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere, not the other way round.

The carbon tax is the single biggest rolled gold example of Federal Labor not listening.

The marginal tax rate for high income earners is going up. Small businesses are no longer enjoying some of the exemption from payroll tax. Now there will be carbon taxes.

Carbon neutrality is going to be so standardized that you will look at anything that is not carbon neutral and go, "where the hell did that monster come from?" It's exciting.

The reason we should do a carbon tax is because it's the right thing to do. It's economics 101, elementary stuff.

Carbon negative power plants can provide energy while they overcome poverty and change economic values in the right direction.

There's so many simple things that can be done to change our carbon footprint, and to reduce our carbon footprint.

Out of the firefight, into the carbon freeze." -Anakin Solo

The 2013/14 storms & floods show the UK needs to invest in a climate resilient, low carbon, food secure, full employment, positive future

I'd like to see a little more action on the energy side of things. I've been pushing for some kind of a carbon tax for years, and it seems to me we've had lots of opportunities to do it.

Carbon tax has the advantage of basically being able to subsidize one set of activities that you want with another set of activities that you don't want. It's like a cigarette tax.

As is widely accepted, putting a price on carbon pollution is the lowest cost and most efficient way to tackle dangerous climate change.

My first inclination is to be a bit skeptical about the claims that human-produced carbon dioxide is the direct contributor to global warming.

Essentially, by 2050 we need all activities outside agriculture to be near zero carbon emitting if we are to stop carbon dioxide levels in the atmosphere growing

'Goals' and 'caps' on carbon emissions are practically worthless, if coal emissions continue, because of the exceedingly long lifetime of carbon dioxide in the air.

Human releases of carbon dioxide are almost certainly happening faster than any natural carbon release since the beginning of life on Earth.

You can go outside and spit and have the same effect as doubling carbon dioxide.

Today I challenge our nation to commit to producing 100 percent of our electricity from renewable energy and truly clean carbon-free sources within 10 years.

The carbon fuels industry-big oil and coal-have a 50-year lease on the Republican Party and they are drilling it for everything it's worth.

There are skeptics who do not come to their view because they have a source of income from carbon polluters.

You need to really scrub your investment portfolios, because I guarantee you, many of you are going to find them chock-full of subprime carbon assets.

The truth about the climate crisis is still inconvenient for the large carbon polluters and the politicians who are in their pockets.

The existence of the EPA regulation will require large carbon polluters to look at their hole cards, and some of them have decided that they much prefer legislation.

We need to put a price on carbon. This needs to be a priority for all of us in how we vote.

Trees and soils can absorb carbon dioxide released by fossil fuel burning. It would be great to subsidize responsible farmers and forest managers.

Carbon zero simply means that the emissions you are releasing either are zero or balance out to zero.

The US and Australia have a lot in common. One of the things we have in common is we produce a lot of carbon.

No country can hide from the dangers of carbon pollution

If there's one thing I would like to see, it'd be for us to be able to price the cost of carbon emissions.

The night sky in North Korea might be the most brilliant in northeast Asia, the only airspace spared the coal dust, Gobi Desert sand, and carbon monoxide choking the rest of the continent.

The fossil fuel industry for too long has shifted enormous costs of carbon pollution onto the public.

Is a man what he seems to the astronomer, a tiny lump of impure carbon and water crawling impotently on a small and unimportant planet? Or is he what he appears to Hamlet? Is he perhaps both as once?

It was huge mistake to avoid working with the rest of the world because (a) we're the largest source of the problem: 4% of us who are in the U.S. produce 25% of the world's carbon dioxide.

A price on carbon sufficient to keep 80% of current reserves underground, rebated directly to citizens.