We need a young generation that can understand the world, a generation that understands science and innovation and climate change, a generation that understands others and values the enormous wealth of our cultures because they belong to all humanity.
But with the urgency that is a feature of the climate-change generation, the tide might just be turning.
As a country challenged by the most challenging economic climate of our generation, we have recognized that government alone is not the solution.
Other large holders include venture firm Draper Fisher with 26.3%, Generation IM Climate Solutions Fund, with 7.5%, and Bay Area Equity Fund, with 7.4%.
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These concerns are warranted, and students are increasingly seeing climate change as the moral issue of their generation.
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And we are the only ones who can create a climate for the American Dream to survive another generation, then another and another.
The only way that we can resolve these challenges, including reducing greenhouse gas emissions in a timeframe that avoids the worst consequences of climate change, is to develop next-generation sources of clean base load power.
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Baard Vegard Solhell, Minister of Environment of Norway, stressed that the mission of our generation should be to focus on climate change, which has major social impacts, including its differential effects on women and men.
The EU could become a world leader in tackling climate change and sustainable living, promoting renewable energy generation and living more lightly on the planet - indeed, it's essential that it does so.
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Let me conclude with the defining challenge of our generation, the defining challenge for multilateralism -- climate change.
But it his fear -- as the title of his new book, "The Last Generation: How Nature Will Take Her Revenge for Climate Change" (it is called "With Speed and Violence" in the U.S.), suggests -- that we still haven't fully realised the apocalyptic forces we have awoken and the reality of what is at stake if global warming continues untrammelled.
Then there's the Nobel laureate Al Gore himself, now an exceedingly wealthy founder of Generation Investment Management, a green business broker and major stockholder in the Chicago Climate Exchange.
And so they lived generation to generation, in sparse tribes probably numbering 15 to 25 people, bending with the climate and doggedly following the herds of the woolly animals they relied on for food and clothing.
Clinton, the husband of current U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, urged the current generation of international statesmen to rise to the leadership challenges posed by the financial collapse and climate change.
The new generation of planes are significantly cheaper to run than those currently flying, so a harsh economic climate may in fact encourage airlines to press on with renewing their fleets.
He did not say who would pay for a technology which increases the cost of power generation so much that it has still not been adopted in rich nations which have caused the climate problem.
And all this information will help increase renewable energy generation, provide support for plug-in electric vehicles, and reduce the carbon pollution that causes climate change.
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