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World leaders realize urgency of combating climate change – Ban Ki-moon

28 September 2007
This week’s historic high-level meeting on climate change has galvanized world leaders to take urgent action to stem global warning, Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon said.

Ban Ki-moon convenes largest-ever meeting of global leaders on climate change

24 September 2007
Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon today opened the largest-ever gathering of world leaders on climate change with a call to forge a coalition to accelerate a global response to an issue which he has identified as one of his top priorities.
Srgjan Kerim, President of the 62nd session of the General Assembly

Tackling climate change a moral obligation, General Assembly President says

24 September 2007
In addition to the incontrovertible scientific data, there is an ethical dimension to combating climate change, General Assembly President Srgjan Kerim said today in an address at the historic meeting on the issue at United Nations Headquarters in New York.
Arnold Schwarzenegger

At UN, California governor and Delhi mayor spotlight local climate change measures

24 September 2007
Addressing today’s landmark United Nations meeting on climate change, California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger and Delhi Mayor Arti Mehra today said governments can learn from the prominent role that local efforts play in addressing the problem.

Youth coalition challenges UN meeting to take stand on climate change

24 September 2007
A representative of environmental youth groups today challenged global leaders gathered at the United Nations to take decisive action to curb the threat posed by climate change.

UN to offset carbon emissions from landmark high-level climate change meeting

24 September 2007
The United Nations will substantially offset the carbon emissions – estimated at approximately 5,000 tons of carbon dioxide – resulting from today’s high-level climate change meeting, which has brought together heads of State and government as well as other senior officials from over 150 nations.
Rajendra Pachauri

UN climate change expert stresses dangers of inaction

24 September 2007
A top United Nations climate change expert today underscored the dangers of inaction by global leaders in reversing global warming at a gathering of heads of state and government and other top officials at the world body’s headquarters in New York.
Achim Steiner, Executive Director of the UN Environment Programme

Climate change not just concern of scientists, but of all – UN environment chief

24 September 2007
Today’s high-level gathering in New York builds on an “unprecedented momentum” of public and political attention that is now being given to climate change, which is no longer just the preoccupation of scientists or negotiators but has become a “people’s issue,” according to the top United Nations environmental official.

Secretary-General lauds push to hasten phase-out of ozone-depleting compounds

24 September 2007
Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon today welcomed this weekend’s agreement by the signatories to the Montreal Protocol – the United Nations-backed treaty to curb the release of harmful substances into the atmosphere – to accelerate the freeze and phase-out of a chemical compound which accelerates both ozone layer damage and climate change.

Joint attack on climate change and poverty needed, Al Gore tells audience at UN

24 September 2007
A new Marshall Plan is needed to simultaneously tackle global warming and poverty, the environmental activist and former United States Vice-President Al Gore told an audience at United Nations Headquarters in New York today.