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UN chief: Bush deserves credit for climate change 'success'
2015-12-26 15:43:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Hill: President George W. Bush deserves credit for kickstarting talks that led to a landmark international agreement on climate change, according to U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-Moon. Ban pointed to a 2007 U.N. climate conference in Bali, when the United States pulled an about-face and agreed to enter negotiations on a new global treaty to curb greenhouse gas emissions. The secretary-general told the Associated Press he still feels "very much grateful" to Bush. "That was the beginning of our success,"...
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VIDEO: UN climate chief on her plans to save the world
2015-12-09 18:01:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Nature: Christiana Figueres has a big job. As the executive secretary of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change, she is in Paris this week to guide 195 governments as they try to broker a new global agreement to reduce greenhouse-gas emissions. Figueres, whose father helped to install democracy in Costa Rica and served three terms as the country's president, tells Nature how she ended up working in environmental policy -- and what she hopes to get out of the ongoing climate talks in...
UN chief wants climate target review by 2020
2015-11-29 16:19:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Associated Press: U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon says governments' pledges to cut global warming emissions aren't enough and should be reviewed before 2020. In an interview Sunday on the eve of a U.N. climate summit in Paris, Ban told The Associated Press he endorsed plans for reviewing targets every five years. "I would propose that the first such review session should be held before 2020," Ban said. In Paris, governments are supposed to adopt a landmark deal to fight climate change and help vulnerable...
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Climate change could have link with terrorism, UN chief Ban Ki-moon tells CBC
2015-11-28 15:06:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
CBC: The UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon says the attacks in Paris can't overshadow efforts to reach a climate change agreement at next week's summit. He also warns in an exclusive interview with CBC News of a possible link between climate change and terrorism. "When we do not address climate change properly it may also affect many people who are frustrated and who are impacted, then there is some possibility that these young people who [are] jobless and frustrated may join these foreign terrorist...
UN chief warns climate change link with terrorism
2015-11-28 13:41:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
CBC: UN secretary general Ban Ki-moon says the attacks in Paris can't overshadow efforts to reach a climate change agreement at next week's summit. He also warns in an exclusive interview with CBC News of a possible link between climate change and terrorism. "When we do not address climate change properly it may also affect many people who are frustrated and who are impacted, then there is some possibility that these young people who [are] jobless and frustrated may join these foreign terrorist...
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