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In praise of… Yvo de Boer

UN bureaucrats are meant to be part of the scenery rather than slap-bang in the foreground. Not so Yvo de Boer, the diplomat in charge of the climate change talks which will reach their climax at Copenhagen next month. After almost a fortnight at the ...

From BAN KI-MOON, Guardian Unlimited,  10 Nov 2009

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We Can Do It

Every day, the critical December summit in Copenhagen grows closer. All agree that climate change is an existential threat to humankind. Yet agreement on what to do still eludes us. How can this be? The issues are complex, affecting everything from ...

From BAN KI-MOON, EcoEarth News,  25 Oct 2009

Related Topics: Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change,  Gordon Brown,  Lindsey Graham,  John Kerry,  U.S. Republican Party

Op-Ed Contributor : We Can Do It

Every day, the critical December summit in Copenhagen grows closer. All agree that climate change is an existential threat to humankind. Yet agreement on what to do still eludes us. How can this be? The issues are complex, affecting everything from ...

From BAN KI-MOON, International Herald Tribune,  25 Oct 2009

Related Topics: Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change,  Gordon Brown,  Lindsey Graham,  John Kerry,  U.S. Republican Party

A message on the International Day for the Eradication of Poverty

Today we recognize the daily struggles and contributions of those living in poverty and resolve to intensify efforts to eliminate the scourge once and for all. At a time of multiple global crises, the poorest and most vulnerable have a special claim on ...

From BAN KI-MOON, Lebanon Daily Star,  16 Oct 2009

Related Topics: United Nations

This is the time to put 'united' back into UN

EVERY September, the world's leaders gather at the United Nations to reaffirm our founding Charter - our faith in fundamental principles of peace, justice, human rights, and equal opportunity for all. This year is different. The 64th opening of the ...

From BAN KI-MOON, Shanghai Daily,  28 Sep 2009

Related Topics: United Nations,  Barack Obama,  Hu Jintao,  U N Security Council

World leaders must act to secure planet's future

Two weeks ago, I visited the Arctic. I saw the remains of a glacier that just a few years ago was a majestic mass of ice. It had collapsed. Not slowly melted – collapsed. I traveled nine hours by ship from the world’s northernmost settlement to reach ...

From BAN KI-MOON, Lebanon Daily Star,  23 Sep 2009

Related Topics: Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change,  United Nations

Sri Lanka vows to rehouse Tamils

A displaced Tamil woman waiting at a government camp in Vavuniya, northern Sri Lanka. Photograph: UN/AFP/Getty Images Sri Lanka's president promised today that a quarter of a million war-displaced Tamil civilians would be released from camps and ...

From BAN KI-MOON, RANDEEP RAMESH, Guardian Unlimited,  18 Sep 2009

Related Topics: United Nations,  Mahinda Rajapaksa,  Ban Ki-moon

Op-Ed Contributor : The Ice Is Melting

Two weeks ago, I visited the Arctic. I saw the remains of a glacier that just a few years ago was a majestic mass of ice. It had collapsed. Not slowly melted — collapsed. I traveled nine hours by ship from the world’s northernmost settlement to reach ...

From BAN KI-MOON, International Herald Tribune,  17 Sep 2009

Related Topics: United Nations

Disarm nuclear weapons for peace

The destruction of Hiroshima and Nagasaki in 1945 marked an end and a beginning. The close of World War II ushered in a Cold War, with a precarious peace based on the threat of mutually assured destruction. Today the world is at another turning point. ...

From BAN KI-MOON, Atlanta Journal Constitution,  6 Aug 2009

Related Topics: United Nations,  Barack Obama

Heres my plan for the world to drop the nuclear bomb

The destruction of Hiroshima and Nagasaki in 1945 marked an end and a beginning. The close of the Second World War ushered in a Cold War, with a precarious peace based on the threat of mutually assured destruction. Today the world is at another turning ...

From BAN KI-MOON, Lebanon Daily Star,  3 Aug 2009

Related Topics: Barack Obama

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