3.02.2007
UN Says Climate Change as Dangerous as War (NZHerald.co.nz)
7:50AM Friday March 02, 2007
By Michelle Nichols
UNITED NATIONS - Climate change poses as much danger to the world as war, UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon said today as he pledged to make global warming the focus of talks with world leaders in June.
In his first address on the subject, Ban said he would emphasise the climate crisis with the leaders at a meeting in Germany of the Group of Eight industrialised nations -- Canada, France, Germany, Italy, Japan, Britain, the United States and Russia.
"The majority of the United Nations work still focuses on preventing and ending conflict," Ban said. "But the danger posed by war to all of humanity and to our planet is at least matched by the climate crisis and global warming."
"In coming decades, changes in our environment and the resulting upheavals from droughts to inundated coastal areas to loss of arable land are likely to become a major driver of war and conflict," said Ban.
(More ... NZ Herald > News > World Story)
By Michelle Nichols
UNITED NATIONS - Climate change poses as much danger to the world as war, UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon said today as he pledged to make global warming the focus of talks with world leaders in June.
In his first address on the subject, Ban said he would emphasise the climate crisis with the leaders at a meeting in Germany of the Group of Eight industrialised nations -- Canada, France, Germany, Italy, Japan, Britain, the United States and Russia.
"The majority of the United Nations work still focuses on preventing and ending conflict," Ban said. "But the danger posed by war to all of humanity and to our planet is at least matched by the climate crisis and global warming."
"In coming decades, changes in our environment and the resulting upheavals from droughts to inundated coastal areas to loss of arable land are likely to become a major driver of war and conflict," said Ban.
(More ... NZ Herald > News > World Story)
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