Climate change is indeed a threat but it also presents a unique opportunity to work together.

Pranab Mukherjee

Hon'ble Minister of External Affairs, Ministry of External Affairs, Government of India

DSDS 2009, New Delhi

Deserts are spreading, water scarcity is increasing, tropical forests are shrinking - climate change is looming large.

Ban Ki-moon, Secretary- General, United Nations

DSDS 2009, New Delhi

Countries vulnerable to climate change will suffer the most though their contribution to climate change is the least.

HE Ms Maria Cristina Narbona Ruiz Minister of Environment, Government of Spain

DSDS 2008, New Delhi

People perceive climate change as a soap opera where every episode is exciting but if you do not watch it for three years, you have not missed anything.

Mr Yvo de Boer Executive Secretary, UNFCCC, Bonn

DSDS 2008, New Delhi

We should not simply restrict ourselves to Bali and Copenhagen. We should concentrate on what we can do here and now.

HE Prof. Ruud F M Lubbers former Prime Minister, Government of The Netherlands

DSDS 2008, New Delhi

The poor are the most vulnerable to ecological pressures as they have no buffers, are relatively voiceless in politics, and have no capital for adjustment and resilience.

Prof. Jeffery D Sachs, Direator - Earth Institute and Special Advisor to the Secretary - General of the United Nations, USA

DSDS 2009, New Delhi

The political landscape has changed with the rising Asian leadership addressing the issues of climate change.

Dr Dirk Messner Director of the German Development Institute (DIE), Deutsches Institut fur Entwick lungspolitik

DSDS 2008, New Delhi

We will all hang together, or we will all hang separately. We need to all join together.

John Kerry, United States Senator from Massachusetts

DSDS 2009, New Delhi