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Climate Change Summit: Now is your moment to act (Ban Ki moon)

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Channel: United Nations · 2009 · News & Politics

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United Nations, New York, 22 September 2009:
Now is your moment to act, the Secretary-General told the nearly 100 world leaders gathered today for the High-Level Summit on Climate Change that he has convened. With only 15 negotiating days left until the Climate Change conference in Copenhagen, the Summit aims to mobilize political will and strengthen momentum for a fair, effective and ambitious climate deal.
Your negotiators need your direct political support and guidance to resolve core issues, to accelerate the pace of negotiations and to strengthen the ambition of what is on offer, the Secretary-General told the delegations. He added that a successful deal in Copenhagen will mean more prosperity, more security, more equity.
He called on the leaders of the industrialized countries to take the first steps forward and called on leaders from developing countries to accelerate their efforts. All countries must do more  now, he said. 
The Secretary-General warned that failure to reach broad agreement in Copenhagen would be morally inexcusable, economically short-sighted and politically unwise.

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