Ban pushes for climate change action

Noting that development followed by action on Climate Change would be the UN's priority for 2010, its chief Ban Ki-moon has announced the creation of Millennium Development Goals Advocacy Group, which will have eminent personalities to call for global action.

A special MDG summit will be convened in September at the UN headquarters to develop concrete plans to meet the goals set in several areas including poverty, health and education, he said.

"Ten years ago, the international community began a new century with a compact to tackle extreme poverty. To promote development. To save our planet from catastrophic climate change," Ban said yesterday at the African Union Summit in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia.

 

"We have made great strides toward the Millennium Development Goals. But there is not much time to the 2015 deadline, and still much distance to travel," The UN Secretary General added.

He noted that the UN's first priority for 2010 was development followed by action on Climate Change underlining "the important role that African leaders can play in supporting the Copenhagen Accord".