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At UN Climate Change Conference, group on cooperative action plan set up

4 December 2007
The United Nations Climate Change Conference in Bali is off to an “encouraging start,” a senior UN official dealing with the issue has said, citing the decision by participating countries to establish a group that will determine the key elements of a long-term cooperative plan of action to address climate change.

New UN-backed report spotlights how communities are adapting to climate change

4 December 2007
As negotiators meet in Bali, Indonesia to frame a legally binding regime on international responses to climate change, a new United Nations-backed report was released today on how communities spanning the globe are coping with the problem.

UN climate change conference opens in Bali with call for breakthrough

3 December 2007
The United Nations Climate Change Conference opened in Bali, Indonesia, today with a call for a clear agenda that will lead countries toward a new deal to address the problem by 2009 so that it can enter into force in 2013 when the current regime expires.

Looking to Bali and beyond, Ban Ki-moon advocates new ‘green economics’

3 December 2007
As the curtain was raised on the United Nations Climate Change Conference in Bali, Indonesia, today, Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon urged leaders to create a global framework to promote green economics and development.

First international symposium on public weather services hosted by UN agency

3 December 2007
The United Nations World Meteorological Organization (WMO) has brought together more than 100 experts for the first international symposium on public weather services to discuss how to help protect communities from natural disasters and the adverse impact of climate change.
Ban Ki-moon

Ban Ki-moon to participate in next month’s climate change conference in Bali

29 November 2007
Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon is heading to the Indonesian island of Bali next month, where world leaders will gather for a major conference on climate change, to try to press for a breakthrough in the international negotiations on devising a comprehensive agreement on reducing greenhouse gas emissions.

UN-backed tree-planting drive hits 1 billion goal ahead of climate change talks

28 November 2007
One billion trees have been planted under a drive backed by the United Nations and the World Agroforestry Centre, hitting the milestone as planned ahead of next month's international climate change conference in Bali.

Information technology can be harnessed against climate change, UN meeting told

27 November 2007
Information and communication technologies (ICT) are largely contributing to climate change but also hold the key to tackling it, several experts and industry figures told a conference today at United Nations headquarters in New York.

Emissions in rich countries hit all-time high, finds UN climate change group

20 November 2007
The total greenhouse gas emissions of 40 industrialized countries reached an all-time high in 2005, driven by rising economic growth in those nations, according to the latest data submitted to the secretariat of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC).
Han Seung-soo

Asia-Pacific region needs sustainable growth, UN climate change envoy says

19 November 2007
The United Nations Secretary General's Special Envoy on Climate Change, Han Seung-soo, today in Bangkok called on countries in the region to pursue sustainable growth.