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

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

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

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

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

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

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.