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A new stage in the development of a final agreement on climate change to limit global temperature rise to below two degrees Celsius or less has been reached today, according to the United Nations Assistant Secretary-General on Climate Change. 'I am convinced we will be able to find an agreement but to achieve this we need to join our forces, we need to unite our efforts' said Laurent Fabius, COP21 President and French Minister of Foreign Affairs...
Speaking at COP21 today, UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon told a room full of business leaders that the global gathering will serve to share progress made in important areas and to establish even greater ambition for the future. 'The collective momentum among the private sector for climate action is growing daily,' said Mr. Ban...
A new initiative to build climate resilience in the world’s most vulnerable countries was launched by Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon and 13 agencies of the UN system. 'Three out of four humanitarian disasters are now climate-related,' Mr. Ban told delegates attending a High-level meeting on climate resilience at the Paris-Le Bourget site, COP21’s main venue...
'You are here today to write the script for a new future,' Mr. Ban told around 150 world leaders attending the kick-off of the much-anticipated COP21 conference in Paris, France. 'A new agreement must also include a single transparent framework for measuring, monitoring and reporting progress. And countries with low capacity should receive flexibility and support'...
Just days away from the kick-off of COP21 — the UN is reminding its main actors that this conference must be a turning point for climate action. To find out more about about it, the UN News Centre met with Janos Pasztor, the UN Assistant Secretary-General on Climate Change. Since January, Mr. Pasztor’s work has focused on supporting efforts towards a new climate agreement...
'Why do I care so much about this issue?' Mr. Ban asked in an opinion piece published today in some 70 countries’ media outlets ahead of the UN climate change conference, COP21. 'First, like any grandfather, I want my grandchildren to enjoy the beauty and bounty of a healthy planet. And like any human being, it grieves me to see that floods, droughts and fires are getting worse,' he explained...
The UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon hosted a meeting on the links between water management and DRR today, stressing that floods, droughts and cyclones have caused more than $1 trillion in damages and affected over 4 billion people since 1990. 'The poor and most vulnerable have suffered first and worst,' he told the second meeting convened as part of the UN High-Level Water and Sanitation Days 2015...
Citing science, technology and innovation as key components of the upcoming COP 21 in Paris, UNESCO Director-General Irina Bokova noted that 'growing concerns with recurrent drought, flooding, hurricanes and other natural phenomena have led Governments to adopt strategies to protect agriculture, reduce disaster risks and diversify national energy mixes'...
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