Sentences with phrase «un secretary»

'' Cities and businesses recognise the economic benefits that come with fighting climate change, and they're setting a great example by establishing clear goals and measuring the impact of their work,» said Michael R. Bloomberg, founder of Bloomberg LP, three - term Mayor of New York City, the UN Secretary General's Special Envoy for Cities and Climate Change, and chair of the Financial Stability Board's Task Force on Climate - related Financial Disclosures, who joined a discussion on climate risk disclosure.

Tom Harris wrote that UN Secretary - General Ban Ki - moon «exemplified the childish and deceptive nature of the UN's approach to climate change when [Ban Ki - moon] told reporters at this week's launch of the Synthesis Report in Copenhagen: «Human influence on the climate system is clear - and clearly growing.

``... [The] Report was introduced by Commission Co-Chair Ricardo Lagos, Special Envoy of the UN Secretary - General on Climate Change and former President of Chile.

Turnbull's lame duck status was made farcically clear by Cabinet's non-decision on Kevin Rudd's proposed nomination as UN Secretary General.

On September 23, world leaders convened in New York City for the UN Climate Summit, where UN Secretary General Ban Ki - moon urged governments to support an ambitious global agreement to dramatically reduce emissions and catalyze climate action.

The UN secretary - general, Ban Ki - moon, has agreed to set up an international scientific advisory board to provide him with guidance on science - related issues, and enable him to provide advice to UN member states on such issues.

The Post printed a Fred Singer fairy tale and an Open Letter to UN Secretary Bam without so much as suggesting this gang of clowns were connected to right wing think tanks and the fossil fuel industry.

But the researchers delivered an alarming message to the UN Secretary - General about a potential environmental catastrophe that could raise sea levels by six metres if an ice sheet covering a fifth of the continent crumbles.

Global Climate Change Focus on Green Economic Development in Developing Countries, Not Just Emission Reductions: Chair of IPCC UN Secretary General Rebukes G8 Nations for Weak Climate Change Commitments G8 Nations Agree to Cut Emissions 80 % by 2050 - Developing Nations Still Skeptical

Kofi Annan, the former UN Secretary General, has some good reasons to be skeptical about all the ambitious plans and ideas floating around the Clinton Global Initiative.

But don't just take it from us: UN Secretary General Ban Ki - moon also was less than thrilled with the commitment of the G8 to tackle climate change.

The chairman of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change wrote to UN Secretary - General Ban Ki - Moon that he was resigning effective immediately Tuesday because he may be unable to provide the panel the leadership it needs.

UN Secretary - General Ban Ki - moon is expected to confirm her appointment later in the week, the BBC reports.

In his opening speech, the UN secretary general, Ban Ki - Moon had been expected to criticise US subsidies for biofuels, which amount to about $ 11bn (# 5.6 bn) a year.

And his plan worked out: UN Secretary - General António Guterres urged that he no longer supports fossil fuels because this would amount to an «investment in destruction».

Some of these issues have also been raised within the ongoing InterAcademy Council review into the IPCC - the review commissioned by UN Secretary - General Ban Ki - moon earlier this year.

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UN Secretary General Ban Ki - moon, who attended the meeting, said that water scarcity is a «potent fuel for wars and conflict,» according to Reuters.

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UN Secretary - General Ban Ki - moon has called for fast action on a treaty, but will the key players want to run this marathon again within a year?

We may have what UN Secretary General Ban Ki - moon has called an «essential first step» towards a greater legally - binding climate deal, and one which the Nature Conservancy's Duncan March says is a potential «real turning point,» but it's a baby step and one which on its own won't actually result in holding temperature rise below 2 °C.

Three days after the report was issued, on April 3, UN Secretary - General Ban Ki - moon proclaimed, «We are running out of time,» in an address to the Friends of Europe, a globalist organization in Brussels, Belgium.

This newsletter discusses how cities were adressed at the UN Secretary General Climate SUmmit (2014) and discusses the development of several projects linking clities and climate change.

-- UN secretary general António Guterres during a 2017 speech

There is no ambiguity in the message,» said the UN secretary general, Ban Ki - moon, attending what he described as the «historic» report launch.

But the bigger question remains, how does a person with such a worthless one - trick pony accusation narrative like that achieve a position separated by only a degree or two from both the President of the United States and the UN Secretary - General?

UN Climate Change News, 15 May 2018 — UN Secretary - General António Guterres has renewed his call for governments, industry, and finance to meet the challenge of climate change through innovation, urgent action, and substantial investment.

The SE4ALL Forum features prominent figures, including UN Secretary - General, Ban Ki - moon and World Bank President, Jim Yong Kim.

UN Secretary - General Ban Ki - moon, for instance, told the audience of business and financial elites at this year's World Economic Forum (WEF): «We need trillions of dollars of investment to move from the brown to the green economy.»

According to the Heartland Institute, UN Secretary - General Ban Ki - moon must be a modern - day, imperialistic evil genius who craves a new world order.

Mr. Achim Steiner - Executive Director, UNEP Nairobi, Kenya c / c Mr. Ban Ki - Moon — UN Secretary - General, New York Mr. Fredrik Reinfeldt - EU - President / Prime Minister of Sweden, Stockholm Mr. Michel Jarraud - Secretary General WMO, Geneva Ms. Inga - Britt Ahlenius - Under - Secretary - General for Internal Oversight Services, United Nations Office of Internal Oversight Services, New York.

Industry should play its part in the fight against climate change by persuading governments to aid carbon cuts rather than lobbying against them, the UN secretary - general told a business conference on Sunday.

«Developing countries can leapfrog conventional options,» the UN Secretary General Ban Ki Moon wrote in the New York Times last year, «just as they leapfrogged land - line based phone technologies in favor of mobile networks.»

Deep Decarbonization Pathways Project (DDPP) Presents Interim Report to UN Secretary - General Ban Ki - Moon

The Deep Decarbonization Pathways Project (DDPP) interim report will be presented in a briefing today to UN Secretary - General Ban Ki - Moon, and tomorrow / the day after to the French government, as host of the 2015 United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) climate conference.

Following hot on the heels of the UN Secretary - General's Climate Summit in New York in September, a couple of events this week should put climate change back in the headlines...

For more on the real problem, click the internet link of none other than one each UN Secretary - General Ban Ki - moon — http://www.un.org/sg/

Mr Bloomberg, who was recently appointed a Special Envoy for Climate Action to the UN Secretary - General, will make the contribution to the budget through his Bloomberg Philanthropies foundation.

VATICAN CITY — Papal heavies shut down an awkward question at a Vatican press conference today when a journalist asked UN Secretary - General Ban Ki - Moon his views on climate sceptics.

The UN Secretary General, Antonio Guterres, told reporters at the event that Mr. Bloomberg was ideal for the role, noting that he «has made an enormous difference, and makes us believe that we will soon be running faster than climate change, that we will soon be starting to defeat climate change, that the Paris Agreement can be fully implemented but with an enhanced ambition».

EU climate commissioner Miguel Arias Canete welcomed the announcement as a «positive boost» for negotiations on that deal, which were described as moving «at a snail's pace» by UN secretary general Ban Ki Moon on Monday.

(1) No False Choices: To Preserve a Livable Climate, We Need to Slash Both CO2 and Methane ASAP; (2) Oil Change International Report: Fossil Fuel Production Subsidies Exceed $ 21 Billion Annually in United States, have increased by 45 % under Obama's «All of the Above» energy policy; (3) Joint Economic Committee Hearing on «The Economic Impact of Increased Natural Gas Production» (video); (4) Leaked Trade Deal Document Shows EU Pressuring U.S. to Lift Crude Oil Export Ban; (5) Deep Decarbonization Pathways Project (DDPP) Presents Interim Report to UN Secretary - General Ban Ki - Moon.

The report presumably will be released by UN Secretary - General Ban Ki Moon, who demonstrated his stunning ignorance of climate science, geology, and geography on a recent climate - junket to Antarctica.

So we appreciate that someone who then picks up the phone and sits down to talk about climate change with people like Pope Francis, US Secretary of State John Kerry, and UN Secretary General Ban Ki - moon.

Ban, the UN secretary general, has invited top political, business and civil society leaders to his headquarters on 23 September.

We know that in 2007 UN Secretary - General Ban Ki - moon described the war in Darfur as the world's first climate change conflict.

(February 27, 2011) Lawrence Solomon reports on the UN Secretary General's direct appeal to Hollywood to make global warming a «hot issue.»

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From 2010 to 2012 he was Co-chair of the UNEP FI Climate Change Working Group and in 2011 and 2012 was part of the technical committee of the UN Secretary General's Sustainable Energy for All.

Sincerely, Boutros Boutros - Ghali» (former UN Secretary General)