In the UN-real world...
January 29, 2007
Plans for an emergency summit of world leaders to break the international impasse on cutting greenhouse gases are being discussed by Ban Ki-moon.
February 5, 2007
Poor countries will suffer most from global warming, Ban Ki-moon warns. “The world has reached a critical stage in its efforts to exercise responsible environmental stewardship,” Mr. Ban said.
March 2, 2007
Climate change poses at least as big a threat to the world as war, the new UN secretary general, Ban Ki-moon, warned last night. "I believe that the world has reached a critical stage in its efforts to exercise responsible environmental stewardship." [Ed - for those who weren't paying attention last month.]
March 21, 2007
"The Secretary-General is exploring ways and means ... to facilitate global efforts for dealing with climate change." Environment ministers will meet for a next round of formal U.N. climate negotiations in Bali, Indonesia, in December.
May 8, 2007
Climate change is no longer a matter for scientific debate, but has become a question to be solved at the international political level, the UN secretary-general's three new special envoys on the issue said today.
June 16, 2007
A Climate Culprit In Darfur. "Almost invariably, we discuss Darfur in a convenient military and political shorthand -- an ethnic conflict pitting Arab militias against black rebels and farmers. Look to its roots, though, and you discover a more complex dynamic. Amid the diverse social and political causes, the Darfur conflict began as an ecological crisis, arising at least in part from climate change."
July 27, 2007
Ban Ki-moon urged the United States to take the lead in combating global warming during a visit to California to learn about the state's campaign to curb its greenhouse gas emissions. "The whole planet Earth is at a crucial juncture," Ban said. "Time is of essence. The cost of inaction will be far greater than the cost of action."
September 19, 2007
Ban Urges Strong Message From Climate Summit. "Before it is too late we must take action."
September 22, 2007
Environmentalists need to mobilize popular support to allow governments to legislate to fight climate change, said United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon.
September 24, 2007
"Climate change is a serious threat to development everywhere. Indeed, the adverse impacts of climate change could undo much of the investment made to achieve the Millennium Development Goals," said Ban Ki-moon in his address to the high-level event on climate change in New York.
October 12, 2007
Ban urges green private sector. Mr Ban said that tackling climate change and global warming is a "moral imperative and a defining issue of our era".
November 11, 2007
UN warns of climate danger. A report prepared by the UN's panel on climate change has warned of the danger of climate change in the strongest terms yet. Mr Ki-Moon who recently visited Antarctica to witness the effects of global warming said: "I come to you humbled after seeing some of the most precious treasures of our planet threatened by humanity's own hand."
December 12, 2007
Speaking at the climate change conference on Bali, UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon has said that preventing global climate change is the "moral challenge of our generation." Failure to act could send the human race into oblivion, he warned.
January 24, 2008
Ban Ki-moon warns of the coming water wars. "The consequences for humanity are grave. Water scarcity threatens economic and social gains and is a potent fuel for wars and conflict.”
February 1, 2008
Global warming could cost the world up to $20 trillion over two decades for cleaner energy sources and do the most harm to people who can least afford to adapt, U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon warns in a new report.
[Ed - the increasingly irrelevant U.N., which under Kofi Annan's "leadership" couldn't manage the $64 billion Oil-for-Food program without having it degenerate into corruption and squalour, now wants us to trust it to administer a $20 trillion (plus) Money-for-Nothing program? Ever wonder why Ban Ki-moon is running so hard on this issue?]
February 6, 2008
Many of today’s conflicts around the world are being fuelled or exacerbated by water shortages and climate change is only making the situation worse, Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon told the General Assembly today. “There is a window of opportunity right now to really move forward in Darfur. We cannot afford to squander it through delay and dithering.”
March 30, 2008
Ban Ki-Moon takes advice from Kevin Rudd. "International progress on fighting climate change is too slow", Australian Prime Minister Kevin Rudd and United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon have agreed.
April 7, 2008
UN chief warns of danger to human health caused by climate change. In his message marking this year's World Health Day, Ban noted that, in addition to causing more frequent and more severe storms, heat waves, droughts and floods, climate change jeopardizes the quality and availability of "water and food, our fundamental determinants of nutrition and health."
June 27, 2008
United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-Moon has urged the industrialised nations to tackle the crises of global food insecurity, climate change and development in poor countries. "If ever there were a time to act, together as one, it is now," Ban told journalists.
July 3, 2008
Global Action to Save Global Growth. "Climate change and environmental degradation threaten the future of our planet. Population growth and rising wealth place unprecedented stress on the Earth's resources."
August 20, 2008
Ban Pledges Support for Pacific Islands Over Climate Change. "Climate change is not science fiction," Ban said in a message to this week's summit of the Pacific Islands Forum, a group of 16 nations. "As your countries know all too well, it is real and present."
September 2, 2008
Ban warns against waiting for climate deal. "We must fight the urge to postpone everything until Copenhagen. Surely we can make concrete progress on some issues," the UN chief said, adding that the Poland meeting should serve as "a very successful bridge" for Copenhagen.
September 23, 2008
UN General Assembly Opens With Climate and Energy Concerns. UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon today opened the General Assembly's annual high-level debate by urging world leaders to work together to solve the most pressing and intractable problems, from climate change and the energy crisis to entrenched poverty and the conflict in Sudan's Darfur region.
December 11, 2008
U.N. chief tells world: we need a Green New Deal. "The financial crisis cannot be an excuse for inaction or for backsliding on your commitments," he told ministers. The climate crisis "affects our potential prosperity and peoples' lives, both now and far into the future."
January 30, 2009
Ban Ki-Moon called on world leaders at the World Economic Forum meeting in Davos, Switzerland, to use the global economic crisis as impetus to form a ‘Green New Deal' that would create jobs and fight climate change.
February 5, 2009
UN chief Ban Ki-moon has warned a climate change conference in India that failure to tackle the issue will lead to global economic upheaval. "Failure to combat climate change will increase poverty and hardship. It will destabilise economies, breed insecurity in many countries and undermine our goals for sustainable development."
March 22, 2009
Secretary General Ban pointed out the seriousness of climate change and the scale of the task ahead, saying, "we are on a dangerous path. Our planet is warming. We must change our way. We need green growth that benefits all communities. We need sustainable energy for a more climate-friendly, prosperous world. This is the path of the future. We must walk it together."
May 6, 2009
“There is little time to lose,” Mr Ban repeated several times. “The window of opportunity is closing fast. Climate change is a global threat, its impact is already upon us: no issue is more essential for our survival as a species.”
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