“Despite this, funding from rich countries to help the poor and vulnerable adapt to climate change is not even 1 percent of what is needed.”

Climate change is…a gross injustice-poor people in developing countries bear over 90% of the burden-through death, disease, destitution and financial loss-yet are least responsible for creating the problem.

There can be no greater act of kindness than to help others when your own world has been destroyed.

Despite the fact that the world produces enough food to feed everyone, there are more hungry people today than when the world last met in Rio in 1992.

Funding from rich countries to help the poor and vulnerable adapt to climate change is not even one percent of what is needed. This glaring injustice must be addressed at Copenhagen in December .

What we do to animals directly impacts everything, because we are all connected. It disrupts the food chain, it funds terrorism (ivory), it changes our climate, our oceans, it starts wars.

Diplomats are useful only in fair weather. As soon as it rains they drown in every drop.

We should be treating, I think, the whole issue of climate change and global warming with a far greater degree of priority than I think is happening now.

One of the main reasons for the conflict in Syria, and the terrorism that it’s spawned, is climate change and drought.

I think we’re going to find, with climate change and everything else, things like global warming and goodness knows what else and the cost of fuel for a start, that things are going to become very complicated.

Climate change should be seen as the greatest challenge to face man and treated as a much bigger priority in the United Kingdom.

It is baffling, I must say, that in our modern world we have such blind trust in science and technology that we all accept what science tells us about everything – until, that is, it comes to climate science.

Scientists with access to data from Navy submarines traversing underneath the North polar ice cap have warned that there is now a 75 percent chance that within five years the entire ice cap will completely disappear during the summer months.