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 pledged to make global warming the focus of talks with world leaders in June.
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An international panel of climate scientists said yesterday that there is an overwhelming probability that human activities are warming the planet at a dangerous rate, with consequences that could soon take decades or centuries to reverse.
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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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U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon said  on Thursday the world is on the cusp of "the age of green  economics" and called on nations to cooperate to fight global  warming and promote the transformation.
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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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U.N. Secretary-General Ban  Ki-moon called on the Security Council in a report issued on  Tuesday to impose sanctions on armies and groups that make use  of child soldiers in at least a dozen countries.
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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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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 Bush administration has made a "significant" shift on global warming, but still falls short on the "much more aggressive" policies needed to head off its damaging impact, the U.N. climate chief said Saturday.
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Rich nations are setting a bad example to the developing world by failing to cut emissions of heat-trapping gases under a landmark U.N. plan to curb global warning, the United Nations climate change chief said.
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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.
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Civilian deaths due to military action by foreign and local troops in Afghanistan seriously undermine global efforts to bring peace to the war-battered nation, UN chief Ban Ki-Moon said Tuesday.
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The UK government's top scientist says atmospheric carbon dioxide concentrations are now becoming dangerous.
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UNITED NATIONS, March 1 -- U.N. Secretary General Ban Ki Moon argued Thursday that global warming poses as great a threat to the world as modern warfare, and he vowed to make reduction of greenhouse gases one of his tenure's top priorities.
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UNITED NATIONS - UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon warned yesterday that a recent surge of fighting in Sudan's Darfur region could hurt next month's political negotiations on ending the four-year conflict.
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At a meeting of world leaders Monday, Ban Ki-moon said that the moment to act on climate change was now.
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Bloomberg - Dec. 27 (Bloomberg) -- Ban Ki-moon had left the climate- change conference in Bali, Indonesia, to visit United Nations peacekeepers in East Timor when he received an urgent call to go back. Talks on a new global-warming treaty were deadlocked.