Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao, at a press conference after the 12th China-EU summit in Nanjing on November 30

"In 2020, the country's gross domestic product will at least double that of now, so will the emissions of greenhouse gases (GHG). But the required reduction of emissions by 40 to 45 percent in 2020 compared with the level of 2005 means the emissions of GHG in 2020 have to be roughly the same as emissions now."

Qi Jianguo, an economic and environmental policy researcher at the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, on China's carbon emissions cut target

"A new era of European cooperation begins today."

Swedish Prime Minister Fredrik Reinfeldt, whose country holds the rotating EU presidency, claiming on December 1 that EU cooperation was entering a new era with the Treaty of Lisbon coming into force

"What you do from this day forward will write, or rewrite, the story of AIDS across Africa."

Michel Sidibe, UNAIDS Executive Director, to South African President Jacob Zuma before Zuma announced his country, which contains the world's most HIV-infected population, would treat all HIV-positive babies and expand testing

"It might slow the pace of recovery for a while but I don't think it's going to be one of these cataclysmic moments that suddenly means equities fall off a cliff and means that the economy turns south once more."

Stephen Pope, Chief Global Equity Strategist at Cantor Fitzgerald, downplaying the impact of the debt revelations from Dubai on the global economy in an interview with CNN

"Our people have been challenged. A crime of which any one of us could have been a victim has been committed for effect. They want to frighten everybody who lives in Russia."

Patriarch Kirill, head of the Russian Orthodox Church, urging the nation not to give in to fear after a train bombing in Russia killed at least 27 people on November 27