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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...
Global Citizen festival: Beyoncé, Big Bird & Ban Ki-moon unite for all-star show
2015-09-27 19:15:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Guardian: Global Citizens goals arent exactly small-scale. The NGO, backed by the United Nations, big business and the likes of Bono, aims to end extreme world poverty by 2030. Organisers of its festival say the event, which was timed to coincide with the UNs Global Goals, which replace the Millennium Development Goals, differs because it is not looking for peoples money, but their time instead. To enter a draw for a ticket to the free event, concertgoers had to complete an action journey write...
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Ban Ki-Moon Presses Rich Nations for $100 Billion Climate Plan
2015-04-16 09:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Bloomberg: UN Secretary General Ban Ki-Moon stepped up pressure on the richest nations and investors to detail how they will meet a pledge to provide developing nations $100 billion a year for climate-related programs by 2020. The United Nations will convene a meeting on the issue in New York next month and wants clear commitments on support for the least-developed countries and islands most at risk of being swamped by rising sea levels, Ban said on Wednesday. I am reallying trying to mobilize your political...
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UN chief Ban Ki-moon calls on India put forth commitments on climate change
2014-12-07 01:54:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Press Trust of India: UN chief Ban Ki-moon has called on India, the world's third-largest emitter, to spell out its nationally determined commitment on reducing emissions by June, saying a "constructive" role played by it will make a universal climate agreement possible in Paris next year. Against the backdrop of significant announcements by the US and China on limiting greenhouse gases, the Secretary General looks to India to also announce its own Intended Nationally Determined Commitment (INDCs) by June next year...
Ban Ki-moon: Time is running out to tackle climate change
2014-09-04 01:05:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
BusinessGreen: UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon has warned that "time is running out" to tackle escalating climate risks, warning it will cost far more to try and adapt to climate impacts later this century than it will to try to curb greenhouse gas emissions now. Writing on Huffington Post yesterday ahead of the meeting of world leaders that he is convening later this month to discuss the global response to climate change, Ban reiterated his view that climate change is already having negative impacts on the...