Katharine Hayhoe
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“We need a president who will make good decisions and choices based on the available science.” Katharine Hayhoe, director of the Climate Science Center at Texas Tech University and signer of a letter by climate experts asking U.S. presidential candidates to lay out their plans to address global warming.
Todd Stern
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“U.S. politics is by and large not coming up [in the negotiations].” Todd Stern, U.S. special envoy for climate change
Ban Ki-moon
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“Climate change has nothing to do with religion. But religious leaders’ moral voice is helpful to … convince those people who are still skeptical.”
Ban Ki-moon, U.N. secretary-general