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UN chief calls for next U.S. president to show greater leadership on climate change
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August 31, 2008
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UN chief calls for next U.S. president to show greater leadership
on climate change
GENEVA, Aug. 31 (Xinhua) -- The next U.S. president should show
greater leadership in tackling the global climate change challenge,
UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon said here on Sunday.
"Now with the expected change of the administration of the United
States, of course I would expect that the future president, whoever
may be, will have to exercise greater leadership," Ban told
journalists after attending a ceremony marking the 20th anniversary
of the founding of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change
(IPCC).
The Nobel Prize-winning body was set up by the World
Meteorological Organization and the UN ...