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I have long understood that climate change is not only an environmental issue - it is a humanitarian, economic, health, and justice issue as well.

Climate change is a terrible problem, and it absolutely needs to be solved. It deserves to be a huge priority.

Global climate change has a profound impact on the survival and development of mankind. It is a major challenge facing all countries.

There isn't a more important issue in the world than global warming. Even the Cold War and the Bay of Pigs crisis were a notional threat.

In the case of climate change, the threat is long-term and diffuse and requires broad international action for the benefit of people decades in the future. And in politics, the urgent always trumps the important, and that is what makes it a very difficult and challenging issue.

Even the government understands that the environmental challenge is so big that no single agency can handle it. It needs collaboration among all the stakeholders - companies, governments, NGOs and the public. Public accountability will be the ultimate driving force.

I would say that, basically, global warming is a non-problem.

All the conservation efforts in the world won't be enough to make a dent in the oncoming sustainability crisis our planet faces.

Global challenges also require global solutions, and few indeed are the situations in which the United States or any other country can act completely alone.