By Megan Davies
UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) – The UN Secretary General, Ban Ki-moon called on Thursday an ecological new deal to tackling climate change and called for a final effort in the negotiations for a key summit to be held in December in Copenhagen.
We must reach an agreement to reduce greenhouse gases and help millions of families to adapt to climate change before our time runs out, Ban told an audience at Johns Hopkins University in Washington, according to a transcript available in the United Nations.
Ban said that before the end of the year planning to travel to the North Pole, as well as regions where drought and competition for water are threatening the welfare and lives of people.
UN is trying that in the month of December, during the Copenhagen summit, reaching a new agreement on climate.
The new treaty would replace the Kyoto Protocol , which limits greenhouse gas emissions that increase global warming and ending on 2012.
In Copenhagen we need to generate green investments and begin a sustained economic recovery, while we give a change in direction in relation to climate change, said Ban.
Marie Okabe, spokesperson for United Nations, told reporters that Ban is also scheduled to be in Copenhagen on Sunday for the opening of the World Business Summit on Climate Change, meeting related to climate change.
In his speech on Thursday, Ban also called for a new partnership between the states' focus on delivering world goods: freedom from hunger, health, education and security from terrorism or the threat of Armageddon.
According to the transcript, Ban also said that UN is expanding its' efforts to maintain peace and prevent conflict.
(Published in Spanish by Ricardo Figueroa)
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