UN chief calls for climate change action
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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.
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U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon urged the world on Thursday to put the looming crisis over water shortages at the top of the global agenda this year and take action to prevent conflicts over scarce supplies.
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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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The international community must respond more quickly to climate change, species extinction, dwindling supplies of fresh water and other threats to the planet, the U.N. Environment Program warned Thursday.
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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 not halted the buildup of greenhouse gas emissions and that governments must take "unprecedented action" to reverse the trend.
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U.N. Secretary General Ban  Ki-moon said on Monday he would press U.S. President George W.  Bush over climate change when they meet in Washington on  Tuesday.
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The top U.N. official for the environment asked Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon on Tuesday to convene an international summit to combat climate change, an official said, joining a chorus of world leaders and ...Comment
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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 pledged to make global warming the focus of talks with world leaders in June.
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The chairman of a UN conference on climate change warns that poor countries need urgent help to stave off the effects of global warming.
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President warned that talks on climate change must take place within a UN framework.
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Prince Charles urged the European Union Thursday to show even greater leadership in the fight against global warming as the "doomsday clock of climate change" ticks down.
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World leaders are set to take part in a special UN meeting in New York to discuss global warming.
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Science & environment: UN conference calls for large and rapidly developing countries to do more to tackle global warming.
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The Government&#39;s chief scientist has warned the world must act fast to combat global warming or face the dire consequences. Professor Sir David King said climate change cannot be avoided and that &quot;action is affordable, inaction is not&quot;.
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Secretary General Kofi Annan urged the Security Council today to take swift action in Sudan&#39;s Darfur region where he said violence was on the rise, the number of displaced
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European nations are not doing enough to fight climate change and should show more leadership before they criticize the United States and Asia, the head of the U.N. Environment Program (UNEP) said on Saturday.
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UN Secretary General Kofi Annan has called for an unprecedented world response to what is an unprecedented wave disaster in the Indian Ocean.