Pressured by environmentalists, UN chief decries global warming
AFP, March, 2007
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UNITED NATIONS (AFP) — Responding to mounting pressure to speak out on climate change, UN chief Ban Ki-moon has said it represents as big a threat to mankind as war and vowed to raise the issue at a summit of rich nations in June.
Since a damning United Nations report warned last month that global fossil fuel-related pollution would raise temperatures this century, melt polar ice and worsen floods, droughts and hurricanes, Ban had been urged by environmentalists to lead a drive for world action to roll back global warming.
In a speech to international high school students here, he said Thursday that "the danger posed by war to all of humanity -- and to our planet -- is at least matched by the climate crisis and global warming."
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And he pledged to raise the issue at a summit of the Group of Eight (G8) group of major industrialized nations ...
