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Almost all of the Marshall Islands' 72,000 residents live within seven feet of sea level. If the climate continues to change at its current pace, ocean acidification could destroy its resources and rising oceans could flood large parts of the islands.

As new technologies upend the economics of climate change, the politics surrounding the environment are changing, too.

Our research indicates that, for example, the physical risks of climate change - both the direct risks to facilities, but also the indirect risks to economic growth and otherwise, are more pronounced and happening more quickly than a traditional perspective would suggest.

Climate risk is investment risk.

Most challenges arise suddenly, with little warning. Climate change is different. For decades, we've known why global average temperatures are rising, why greenhouse gas concentrations are increasing, why the oceans are warming and weather patterns are growing more extreme.

Climate change is real, it is being driven by human activity, and it is affecting the lives of people across the United States and around the world today.

Without global action on climate change, Bhutan's tourist and agricultural-based economy faces an acute threat from climate change.

Although the Trump administration cannot halt global progress on climate change, it can still hurt the U.S. economy and the United States' diplomatic standing by abandoning the Paris agreement.

The fact is, we can take on climate change, grow the economy, and create more jobs and opportunity for the American people at the same time.

Climate change is real, it is being driven by human activity, and it is not a problem any one country can solve on its own.

This is what climate action is all about - all sectors of the economy, from places large and small, recognizing the moral imperative and the economic opportunity, stepping up and doing what they can to make a difference.

For too long, opponents of climate change have hid behind the argument that the U.S. cannot afford to cut carbon pollution because other countries won't follow suit.

Under President Obama's leadership, the United States has done more to combat climate change than ever before.

Perhaps if there were less certitude about our climate future, more Americans would be interested in having a reasoned conversation about it.

I will work hard at the federal level to defend our progress on climate change, but we know that forward progress on climate must happen locally.

Climate change is an economic, public health, and environmental issue that we have a moral responsibility to address.

Look at climate change. That's a bigger problem than plastic, but we can't all focus on that and forget about plastic - that isn't how the world works. We can divide our attention across different things, using clean-up to strengthen prevention.

When you look at the humanitarian issues - poverty, education, rights, violence - I think there are positive trends. But when you look at climate change, at plastic pollution and other forms of pollution, at overconsumption, it's a different story.

We have lost certainty and predictability in the regulatory and tax climate in America, and this is why we're recovering so slowly.

Those who do not think religious organizations should have an opinion on climate change misunderstand the former and the moral dimension of the latter.

Even if every major government were to slap huge taxes on carbon fuels - which is not going to happen - it wouldn't do much to halt climate change any time soon. What it would do is cost us hundreds of billions - if not trillions - of dollars, because alternative energy technologies are not yet ready to take up the slack.