Concordance
“climate change” in the General Debate
10,007 uses across 38 years of statements. First recorded in 1988; used most in 2019, when it appeared 743 times across 168 statements by 168 speakers.
What this counts, and what it does not. This is
the number of times the string climate change appears in the
text of General Debate statements, matched on word boundaries and ignoring
case. It is a fact about a word. It is not a measure of how much any
state cared about the subject, what position it took, or whether it meant it
— and nothing on this page should be read that way.
The final year of this series is machine-transcribed from the official simultaneous interpretation rather than taken from a UN transcript, so it counts what a transcriber heard. See session 80.
Used most by
| Speaker | Uses | Statements | First | Last |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Tuvalu | 290 | 25 | 2001 | 2025 |
| Federated States of Micronesia | 257 | 34 | 1991 | 2025 |
| Samoa | 239 | 26 | 1993 | 2025 |
| Kiribati | 184 | 22 | 2003 | 2025 |
| Vanuatu | 152 | 27 | 1991 | 2025 |
| Dominica | 148 | 21 | 1993 | 2023 |
| Papua New Guinea | 139 | 31 | 1991 | 2025 |
| Solomon Islands | 138 | 34 | 1989 | 2025 |
| Palau | 135 | 25 | 1999 | 2025 |
| Nauru | 133 | 24 | 2001 | 2025 |
| Antigua and Barbuda | 128 | 25 | 1991 | 2025 |
| Tonga | 121 | 21 | 2001 | 2025 |
| Marshall Islands | 118 | 32 | 1993 | 2025 |
| Grenada | 106 | 23 | 1991 | 2025 |
| Maldives | 105 | 27 | 1990 | 2024 |
| Seychelles | 100 | 20 | 1996 | 2024 |
| Fiji | 95 | 24 | 1992 | 2025 |
| Cambodia | 92 | 19 | 2002 | 2024 |
| Saint Lucia | 89 | 20 | 2006 | 2025 |
| Saint Vincent and the Grenadines | 89 | 25 | 1992 | 2025 |
| Belize | 88 | 24 | 1989 | 2024 |
| Guyana | 88 | 20 | 1995 | 2025 |
| Mauritius | 88 | 24 | 1993 | 2025 |
| Mongolia | 84 | 21 | 1993 | 2025 |
| Andorra | 83 | 17 | 2007 | 2025 |
A state that speaks every year has more chances to use a word than one admitted in 2011, and a state whose statements are longer has more again. These are counts, not rates.