UN chief optimistic, says #ClimateAction is ‘a wholehearted commitment by whole world’
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Channel: United Nations · 2016 · News & Politics
United Nations- UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon has expressed optimism about combating climate change, highlighting the world's collective efforts to "mobilize for a better future." Mr. Ban was speaking to the press at the start of the High Level Segment of the 22nd Conference of Parties (#COP22) to the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC), on 15 November 2016, in Marrakech, Morocco. He noted that the #ParisAgreement had entered into force "in record time" in the history of the UN, with 109 countries – representing 75 per cent of global greenhouse gas emitters – having ratified the Agreement to-date.
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