Reuters: U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon on Monday appointed former Ghana President John Kufuor and former Norwegian Prime Minister Jens Stoltenberg as special envoys on climate change to drum up support for a planned global conference in September.
Ban has invited world leaders, chief executives and civil society groups to a Climate Summit in New York on September 23 to push for robust action on climate change by reducing greenhouse gas emissions and building climate resilient communities.
"As part...