World Leaders Urge Action on Climate Change

United Nations (New York), September, 25 2007 - A parade of world leaders from heads of state to corporate chiefs urged action on climate change at the largest summit on the issue ever organized. "The time for doubt has passed," said U.N. Secretary General Ban Ki-moon in his opening remarks at the event held Monday at the United Nations. "National action must be at the center of our response to climate change—with industrialized countries taking the lead."
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"Unprecedented momentum of public and political attention should stay"
United Nations (New York), September, 25 2007 - A high-level event on climate change pointed to "unprecedented momentum of public and political attention" to environmental issues, Achim Steiner, Executive Director of the United Nations Environmental Programme (UNEP), said at a Headquarters press conference.
www.unep.org: Environmental issues are global issues

World Energy Revolution Needed For Climate, Says Condoleezza Rice
United Nations (New York), September, 25 2007 - U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice said on Monday the world needs a revolution on energy that transcends oil, gas and coal to prevent problems from climate change.
"Ultimately, we must develop and bring to market new energy technologies that transcend the current system of fossil fuels, carbon emissions and economic activity. Put simply, the world needs a technological revolution," Rice told delegates at a special U.N. conference on climate change.
A landmark report by the U.N. Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change this year said human activities such as burning fossil fuels and forests are very likely causing climate change that will lead to more deadly storms, heat waves, droughts and floods.
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The U.N.'s Hot Air on Climate Change
United Nations (New York), September, 24 2007 - While much was said at the United Nations summit on global warming, the world is still a ways from taking concrete action.
www.time.com: The U.N.'s Hot Air on Climate Change

UN Secretary-General shows climate leadership
United Nations (New York), September, 24 2007 - Participants attending a high-level climate change summit at the United Nations declared that an ambitious comprehensive climate agreement will be negotiated within the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change — building on the Kyoto Protocol — by no later than 2009.
www.panda.org: UN Secretary-General shows climate leadership

U.N. climate summit hears calls for urgent action, concerns over U.S.
United Nations (New York), September, 24 2007 - With tales of rising seas and talk of human solidarity, world leaders at the first United Nations climate summit sought to put new urgency into global talks to reduce global-warming emissions.
What's needed is "action, action, action," California's environmentalist governor, Arnold Schwarzenegger, told the assembled presidents and premiers on Monday.
edition.cnn.com: U.N. climate summit hears calls for urgent action, concerns over U.S.
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'Arnie' and 'Al' Push Climate Action
United Nations (New York), September, 24 2007 - "Arnie" and "Al," Republican and Democrat, shared the world spotlight to press for climate action, adding a touch of star quality to the staid proceedings of a U.N. summit.
www.physorg.com: 'Arnie' and 'Al' Push Climate Action

U.N. chief sees major commitment to climate change
United Nations (New York), September, 24 2007 - U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon said a one-day high-level meeting on climate change on Monday was a turning point in the battle against global warming. "What I heard today is a major political commitment for a breakthrough in climate change in Bali," Ban said.
www.reuters.com: U.N. chief sees major commitment to climate change

Climate change calls for concerted global solution, Ban Ki-Moon says at opening of key UN meeting

United Nations (New York), September, 24 2007 - Representatives from nearly 160 countries, including more than 70 heads of state, are taking part in a high-level, informal discussion on climate change. The Secretary-General convened this meeting to give participants an opportunity to exchange views on the challenges of climate change and how to respond to it.
Climate change calls for concerted global solution

Endangered islands sound climate change alarm
United Nations (New York), September 24 2007 - Small islands, home to 5 percent of the world's population, could disappear under rising oceans as the Earth warms, delegates from 37 small island states warned on Monday.
www.reuters.com: Endangered islands sound climate change alarm

Call for quick action on climate change at UN
United Nations (New York), September, 24 2007 - The head of the United Nations, the governor of California and the star of "An Inconvenient Truth" spoke with one voice on Monday, urging quick global action to stem emissions that heat the planet.
www.reuters.com: Call for quick action on climate change at UN

UN chief, Ban Ki Moon, calls for immediate action on global warming
United Nations (New York), September, 24 2007 - The UN secretary general, Ban Ki Moon, told a summit meeting on climate change Monday that "the time for doubt has passed" and a breakthrough is needed in global talks to sharply reduce emissions of global-warming gases.
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Schwarzenegger urges U.N. to move on climate change

United Nations (New York), September, 24 2007 - Rich and poor nations must get over their disagreements about how to fight climate change and forge a new pact to replace the Kyoto Protocol, California Governer Arnold Schwarzenegger said.
Speaking at a United Nations conference on global warming, Schwarzenegger urged countries to stop blaming each other for rising temperatures and work together to solve the problem.
www.reuters.com: Schwarzenegger urges U.N. to move on climate change

An insider's guide to the upcoming week
Washington / New York, September, 24 2007 - The forecast this week is for balmy days in the mid-70s and low 80s in both Washington and New York. This could provide, depending on your perspective, either a fitting or discomfiting backdrop to two major international events on the climate.
www.washingtonpost.com: An insider's guide to the upcoming week

Gore urges U.N. to "overcome paralysis" on climate
London / New York, September, 24 2007 - California Governer Arnold Schwarzenegger and former Vice President Al Gore are set to join world leaders for a U.N. meeting on Monday aimed at spurring global negotiations on how to cool a warming planet.
www.reuters.com: Gore urges U.N. to "overcome paralysis" on climate
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Brown urges US to accept carbon limits
London, September 24 2007 - Gordon Brown has insisted that global climate change can be limited to 2C and called on the US to accept binding targets to limit its carbon pollution.
www.guardian.co.uk: Brown urges US to accept carbon limits

Bush to Skip U.N. Talks on Global Warming
Washington, September 23 2007 - Dozens of world leaders are to gather at the United Nations on Monday for a full agenda of talks on how to fight global warming, and President Bush is skipping all the day’s events but the dinner.
www.nytimes.com: Bush to Skip U.N. Talks on Global Warming

UN Secretary-General convenes world leaders to build momentum for climate change talks in Bali

London / New York, September, 23 2007 - United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon will seek to advance the global agenda on climate change when he meets with heads of state and other top officials from more than 150 countries at United Nations Headquarters on 24 September.
www.un.org: UN Secretary-General convenes world leaders to build momentum for climate change talks in Bali

UN official says global climate change meeting should produce call for action

New York, September 23 2007 - Just two days before national leaders from across the world gather at United Nations Headquarters in New York for the largest-ever high-level meeting on the problem of climate change, a senior UN official today said the event should produce a strong call for action to address the problem.
www.un.org: UN official says global climate change meeting should produce call for action

World leaders at climate summit
New York, September 23 2007 - Leaders of 80 countries are expected to attend a special UN meeting in New York to discuss the effects of global warming and the ways to combat it. The meeting comes just days after scientists reported that more Arctic ice melted this year than ever before. The UN climate chief says a breakthrough is essential. US President George W Bush will not be present, hosting instead a meeting of 16 "major emitter" countries in Washington on Thursday and Friday.
www.bbc.co.uk: World leaders at climate summit

Breakthrough urged at UN climate summit
New York, September 24 2007 - UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon was to heap pressure on world leaders on Monday, urging them to smash a deadlock threatening an upcoming conference on climate change in Bali.
Ban was to make the keynote address at an unprecedented world summit entitled "The Future in Our Hands: Addressing the Leadership Challenge of Climate Change."
www.france24.com: Breakthrough urged at UN climate summit

Bush again puts U.S. at edge of global warming debate
New York, September, 23 2007 - The president's focus instead is on his own gathering of leaders in Washington later in the week, a meeting with the stated goal of a reduction in the emissions blamed for climate change, but with a fundamentally different idea of how to achieve it.
www.iht.com: Bush again puts U.S. at edge of global warming debate

Global warming meetings put focus on U.S. role
Washington, September, 23 2007 - A trio of climate change meetings in the United States this week will focus attention on how Washington can deliver on its pledge to play a lead role in combating global warming.
www.reuters.com: Global warming meetings put focus on U.S. role

U.N. Summit to Push Climate Talks
New York, September, 23 2007 - Arnold Schwarzenegger, Al Gore and the leaders of some 80 nations converge on the U.N. on Monday for a summit on the warming Earth and what to do about it.
www.time.com: U.N. Summit to Push Climate Talks

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