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Private sector should lead fight on climate change

12 Oct '07
2 min read

Tonight he is expected to tell the National Association of Evangelicals that tackling climate change and global warming is a “moral imperative and a defining issue of our era.”

Mr. Ban will warn that the lives of hundreds of millions of people worldwide are in jeopardy from climate change.

“Without a strong global effort against global warming, we will fail in achieving the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) and the implicit human right to economic justice and development,” he said, referring to a set of antipoverty targets which leaders at a 2000 UN summit said should be reached by 2015.

United Nations

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