UN Chief Urges 'Unprecedented Action' on Climate Change
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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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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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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 - UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon said yesterday 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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President warned that talks on climate change must take place within a UN framework.
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One of the world&#39;s top thinkers on climate change, Eileen Claussen, says more than just the Kyoto Protocol is needed to tackle the issue.
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UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon says global warming poses at least as big a threat to the world as war.
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The Prince of Wales today urged governments around the world to take drastic action to prevent climate disaster, likening the environmental crisis to war
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LONDON - The world faces a surge in extreme weather events because of global warming and governments must act immediately to avert disaster, Britain&#39;s chief scientist said yesterday.
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BUENOS AIRES, Argentina - Delegates to a United Nations climate conference discussed new ways to combat greenhouse emissions after the current agreement expires as nearly 200 countries continued meetings Thursday on the effort to limit a gradual rise of
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Britain's foreign secretary   warned at the United Nations on Friday that climate change was   a growing threat to international security and the world   economy, saying the next 10 years would be crucial.
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The United Nations secretary-general has urged the Security Council to take immediate action over a US draft resolution on Sudan&#39;s Darfur region.
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The world's governments must dramatically cut emissions of heat-trapping gases or learn to live with more droughts, heat waves, powerful rainstorms, and rising sea levels that will affect millions, leading climate scientists said after the release of a landmark global warming report yesterday.
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With tales of rising seas and talk of human solidarity, world leaders at the first United Nations climate summit sought Monday to put new urgency into global talks to reduce global-warming emissions.
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Al Gore on Thursday delivered a rousing call for the world to take strong action to fight climate change without the United States, accusing his country of scuttling a key UN conference in Bali.
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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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Climate change is the greatest threat to global equality, Foreign Secretary David Miliband tells the UN.