1. Human-induced climate change is real
2. The consequences of climate change will be significant, and will hit the poor the hardest
3. Christian moral convictions demand our response to the climate change problem
4. The need to act now is urgent. Governments, businesses, churches, and individuals all have a role to play in addressing climate change—starting now.

—Statement of the Evangelical Climate Initiative, signed by Rev. Dr. Leith Anderson, Former President, National Association of Evangelicals; Dr. Robert Andringa, President, Council for Christian Colleges and Universities, and over 100 other prominent religious leaders.

1. Finds that the Christian mandate to care for creation and the biblical promise of the restoration of right relationships between God, human beings, and the rest of creation impels and inspires us to act to reduce our energy usage.
2. Finds that the urgency, injustice, and seriousness of this issue calls us as Christians to act NOW and to act boldly to lead the way in reducing our energy usage.
3. Strongly urges all Presbyterians to immediately make a bold witness by aspiring to live carbon neutral lives. (Carbon neutrality requires our energy consumption that releases carbon dioxide into the atmosphere be reduced and carbon offsets purchased to compensate for those carbon emissions that could not be eliminated.)

—Resolution of the General Assembly, Presbyterian Church of the U.S.

We are now faced with the fact that tomorrow is today. We are confronted with the fierce urgency of now. In this unfolding conundrum of life and history there is such a thing as being too late. Procrastination is still the thief of time. ... We may cry out deperately for time to pause in her passage, but time is deaf to every plea and rushes on. Over the bleached bones and jumbled residue of numerous civilizations are written the pathetic words: "Too late." (1967)

—Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.

From sub-Saharan Africa to the CIS, there has actually been an increase in numbers of hungry people in the last three years... There can be little doubt that changing climactic conditions have had an impact here. We can no longer pretend that human activity has little or no impact on these matters.

There is ... an urgent need to transform global energy systems, as current approaches are causing serious harm to human health, the Earth’s climate and ecological systems on which all life depends, and because access to clean, reliable energy services is a vital prerequisite for alleviating poverty. (2006)

—Statement of H.E. Mons. Celestino Migliore, the Vatican's representative to the United Nations.