A revolution in humanity's use of fossil fuel-based energy would be necessary sooner or later to sustain and to extend modern standards of living. It…

- Ross Garnaut

Carbon capture and storage, its commercial development.. is going to be the key to the future of coal. If it is successful commercially, then the Aus…

- Ross Garnaut

A reduction in emissions matters more than what a country pays for it.

- Ross Garnaut

Every climate scientist has his or her own views on some issues that differ from the mainstream in detail. But the broad findings of the IPCC (Interg…

- Ross Garnaut

The climate change problem is at its heart an ethical problem. It's a problem of income distribution and it's a problem of income distribution with d…

- Ross Garnaut

There is not going to be, we can be quite certain, there's not going to be any action on reducing greenhouse gas emissions by China or India or Indon…

- Ross Garnaut

The international equity question arises from the costs of climate change itself and mitigation varying greatly across countries. It is affected by t…

- Ross Garnaut

It crosses my mind that our generation may leave problems that are simply too hard for human society in the generations that follow. The structures t…

- Ross Garnaut

Economic development over the past two centuries has taken most of humanity from lives that were brutal, ignorant and short, to personal health and s…

- Ross Garnaut