From Yoshita Singh
United Nations, Sep 23 (PTI) Warning that the cost of climate change is “fast becoming unbearable”, UN chief Ban Ki-moon has asked an unprecedented gathering of world leaders to take action to reverse global warming and begin to capitalise the Green Climate Fund, an issue that India has said it would raise at the conference.
“We are not here to talk, we are here to make history,” Ban told the opening ceremony of his much-anticipated Climate Summit, billed as the largest-ever gathering on climate change, in the General Assembly Hall here yesterday.
“We need a clear shared vision.”
“The human, environmental, and financial cost of climate change is fast becoming unbearable,” Ban said.
Many of the more than 120 Heads of States and Government, business, finance and civil society representatives are expected to announce commitments that will reduce emissions, enhance resistance to climate change and mobilise financing for climate action.
“I am asking you to lead,” Ban said.