UN urges world to create climate fund now

UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon speaks during a conference in Dhaka, Bangladesh.

UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon speaks during a conference in Dhaka, Bangladesh.

Published Nov 14, 2011

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Dhaka - UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon is urging world leaders to create a multibillion dollar fund later this month to fight against the worst results of climate change.

He said governments must create a $100 billion “Green Climate Fund” without any delay a UN-sponsored climate change talks starting November 28 in Durban, South Africa.

At the opening of a climate meeting in Bangladesh's capital, Ban said on Monday that the world should make a real move “now.”

Representatives from about 30 countries under a platform “Climate Vulnerable Forum” are meeting for two days in Dhaka to design a united stand on the future finance of the climate schemes they desperately need to limit increasing loss of human life and other damage because of global warming. - Sapa-AP

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