UN Secretary General Backs Pacific Calls For Action On Climate Change
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First published in Sanctuary Asia,
Vol. 31
No. 9,
September 2011
Ban said his visit to the Solomon Islands and Kiribati before arriving in New Zealand for the 42nd Pacific Islands Forum Leaders Meeting had "reinforced my belief that climate change is happening and we must take action now."
"I'm here to continue sounding the global alarm about climate change," he said at a press conference with New Zealand Prime Minister John Key, who is chairing the event, on the opening day of the meeting.
Ban said he had a "much keener sense" of the problem after talking with Pacific leaders and seeing the effects for himself.
"I support their calls for more concerted action," he said.
"Climate change is not about what might happen tomorrow. This is about what is happening now today." Read the full report here.
Source: English.news.cn, Auckland, New Zealand.
