Concordance
“global warming” in the General Debate
776 uses across 38 years of statements. First recorded in 1988; used most in 2019, when it appeared 63 times across 39 statements by 39 speakers.
What this counts, and what it does not. This is
the number of times the string global warming 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Antigua and Barbuda | 22 | 13 | 1989 | 2024 |
| Maldives | 22 | 13 | 1989 | 2021 |
| Chile | 21 | 11 | 2007 | 2025 |
| Federated States of Micronesia | 17 | 13 | 1991 | 2023 |
| Cambodia | 16 | 8 | 1991 | 2016 |
| Fiji | 16 | 12 | 1989 | 2021 |
| Marshall Islands | 15 | 8 | 1991 | 2023 |
| Dominica | 15 | 11 | 1990 | 2022 |
| Ivory Coast | 14 | 9 | 2015 | 2025 |
| Mauritius | 14 | 9 | 2004 | 2024 |
| France | 14 | 7 | 2009 | 2020 |
| Palau | 13 | 6 | 1999 | 2022 |
| Saint Vincent and the Grenadines | 13 | 11 | 1991 | 2024 |
| Costa Rica | 12 | 7 | 1989 | 2023 |
| Bolivia | 12 | 6 | 2007 | 2024 |
| Andorra | 11 | 7 | 2003 | 2023 |
| Belize | 11 | 9 | 1989 | 2024 |
| Tuvalu | 11 | 8 | 2002 | 2024 |
| Japan | 10 | 8 | 1989 | 2007 |
| Bangladesh | 10 | 6 | 1989 | 2013 |
| Papua New Guinea | 9 | 9 | 1991 | 2023 |
| Gabon | 9 | 7 | 2007 | 2023 |
| Luxembourg | 8 | 7 | 1995 | 2021 |
| United States | 8 | 4 | 1989 | 2025 |
| Democratic Republic of the Congo | 8 | 5 | 2009 | 2023 |
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.