Climate change as dangerous as war: U.N. chief Ban
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Climate change poses as much danger to the world as war, U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon said on Thursday as he urged the United States to take the lead in the fight against global warming.
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Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon warned the Security Council on Tuesday that sending U.N. peacekeepers to Chad carries "serious risks" because of the volatile situation in the central African nation and possible attacks by rebel groups.
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UNITED NATIONS -- Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon expressed hope Thursday that the &quot;active debate&quot; in the U.S. administration and Congress on global warming will spur the United States to take a leadership role in combatting climate change.The U.N.
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UNITED NATIONS, Sept. 24--U.N. Secretary General Ban Ki Moon said Monday that a 15-year international effort to stem global warming has failed to halt the buildup of greenhouse emissions and called for governments to undertake "unprecedented action" to reverse the trend.
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To head off the worst of climate change, governments must pour tens of billions of dollars more than they are into clean-energy research and enforce sharp rollbacks in fossil-fuel emissions, an expert scientific panel reported to the United Nations on Tuesday.
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The U.S.-led war in Iraq hasn't made the world any safer, U.N. Secretary General Kofi Annan said in a British TV interview aired Sunday.
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UN Secretary General Kofi Annan warned of the danger of a "cascade" of nuclear proliferation unless new steps are taken to prevent it and called for help to stop killings in Darfur.
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Life & style: Ban move prompted by carbon footprint concern  'would mean lost jobs in developing countries'.
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The top U.N. official for the environment asked Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon on Tuesday to convene an emergency international summit to combat global climate change, an official said, joining a growing chorus of world leaders and scientists calling for urgent action to cut greenhouse gases.
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Climate change is just one of the threats facing some small island developing states, the United Nations says.
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BALI, Indonesia, Dec. 13 -- U.N. Secretary General Ban Ki-moon conceded Wednesday that the United States had succeeded in achieving one of its key objectives at the climate conference here, blocking a proposal that called on industrialized nations to cut their greenhouse gas emissions by 25 to 40...
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Climate change is the greatest threat to global equality, UK Foreign Secretary David Miliband tells the UN.
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The U.N. climate panel agreed in its starkest warning yet on Thursday that human activities are causing global warming that may bring more droughts, heatwaves and rising seas, delegates said.
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At a meeting of world leaders today, Ban Ki-moon said that the moment to act on climate change was now.
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Climate change is partly to blame for the conflict in Sudan's Darfur region, where droughts have provoked fighting over water sources, U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon said in an editorial published Saturday.
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Luckily, most vulnerable countries already aflame The head of the British armed forces said today that Western armed forces must be ready to deal with the consequences of global warming.â¦
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U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon on Monday urged all nations to join private companies, civic groups and individuals this year in sustaining "the unprecedented momentum" to fight global warming.