Welcome to Climate Change Risk Management
Climate Change Risk Management (CCRM) is a specialist scientific consultancy originally developed at Oxford University, which offers technical and scientific expertise on a range of issues associated with contemporary and future climate change. Our role is to help businesses, government and others to understand climate change and plan for it.
We are all scientists and academics working at the forefront of climate change science and policy. Click here to see the CCRM team.
Niall Fitzgerald, UK CEO, Unilever:
"Sustainability is here to stay or we may not be".
David Miliband (2006):
"Dangerous climate change... It's important not to be alarmist but it is very important to be alarmed".
Barack Obama:
"Climate change is ... one of the greatest moral challenges of our generation".
Gordon Brown:
"As the Stern Report ... shows, the economic cost of this kind of climate change, the change which the world is currently headed for, would be comparable to the economic effects of a great depression combined with world war".
Arnold Schwarzenegger, Governor of California (2005):
"Climate change: I say the debate is over. We know the science, we see the threat and we know that the time for action is now".
R K Pachauri, Chairman, IPCC (2005):
"Climate change: It's here. If we don't react, war, pestilence and famine will follow close behind".
David Cameron (2006):
"Climate change is one of the biggest threats facing the world and we must have a much greater sense of urgency about tackling it".
Albert Einstein:
"The environment is everything else except me".
Gordon Brown (2007):
"The climate change crisis is the product of many generations, but overcoming it must be the great project of this generation".
Sir Nicholas Stern (2006):
"The scientific evidence is now overwhelming: climate change presents very serious global risks, and it demands an urgent global response".
Tony Blair (2006):
"Climate change is probably the greatest long-term challenge facing the human race".
Malcolm Wicks, UK Energy Minister (2006):
"By the end of this century we will be living in a low carbon economy. We have no choice. Our current reliance on fossil fuels is unsustainable; our carbon emissions are throwing the climate out of balance".
European Union:
"Faced with this mounting evidence of the harmful effects of climate change, the European Union is convinced that the world must take action to tackle the problem".
Henry David Thoreau (1817-1862):
"What good is a house, if you haven't got a decent planet to put it on?".
José Manuel Barroso, EU President (2008):
"Our mission, indeed our duty, is to build, over the next fifty years and beyond, a global climate- friendly economy.".
Margaret Thatcher (1988):
"We do not have a freehold on the earth, only a full repairing lease".
John McCain:
"Like other environmental challenges -- only more so -- global warming presents a test of foresight, of political courage, and of the unselfish concern that one generation owes to the next".