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Information on Climate Change Selected Statements and Speeches of UN Officials International community must abide by world leaders’ commitment on climate change, says Secretary-General in message to Informal Ministerial Meeting (SG/SM/11235-ENV/DEV/955 24, October 2007): http://www.un.org/News/Press/docs/2007/sgsm11235.doc.htm Statement by the General Assembly President at the High Level Event - “The Future in our Hands: Addressing the Leadership challenge of Climate Change” (24 September 2007): http://www.un.org/ga/president/62/statements/climatechange240907.shtml Climate change threatens investment in Millennium Development Goals, says Secretary-General in address to high-level event (SG/SM/11175-GA/10619-ENV/DEV/950, 24 September 2007): http://www.un.org/News/Press/docs/2007/sgsm11175.doc.htm Transcript of Joint Press Conference following High-Level Event on Climate change at United Nations Headquarters, 24 September 2007 (SG/SM/11181, 24 September 2007): http://www.un.org/News/Press/docs/2007/sgsm11181.doc.htm Press Conference by United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change, Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (22 September 2007): http://www.un.org/News/briefings/docs/2007/070922_UNFCCC.doc.htm Secretary-General says climate change merits very highest attention; comprehensive agreement under United Nations Framework Convention needed on all fronts by 2009 (SG/SM/11108-GA/10608-ENV/DEV/946, 31 July 2007): http://www.un.org/News/Press/docs/2007/sgsm11108.doc.htm UN best suited to lead world efforts against global challenges - terrorism, climate change, poverty – says Secretary-General in San Francisco address (SG/SM/11104, 26 July 2007): http://www.un.org/News/Press/docs/2007/sgsm11104.doc.htm Desertification, climate change threaten development goals, must be addressed together, as ‘one global challenge’, says Secretary-General on world day (SG/SM/11030-ENV/DEV/943-OBV/633, 7 June 2007): http://www.un.org/News/Press/docs/2007/sgsm11030.doc.htm Hear the first victims of climate change / By Ban Ki-moon (International Herald Tribune, 6 June 2007): http://www.un.org/sg/press_article2.shtml Secretary-General highlights global nature of climate change in message for world environment day (SG/SM/11018-ENV/DEV/940-OBV/630, 31 May 2007): http://www.un.org/News/Press/docs/2007/sgsm11018.doc.htm Secretary-General calls for integrated, balanced response to climate change in remarks to high-level segment of Commission on Sustainable development (SG/SM/10988-ENV/DEV/936, 9 May 2007): http://www.un.org/News/Press/docs/2007/sgsm10988.doc.htm Secretary-General appoints three new special envoys on climate change (SG/A/1061-ENV/DEV/929, 1 May 2007): http://www.un.org/News/Press/docs/2007/sga1061.doc.htm Parliaments will help define national, global engagement on climate change, says Secretary-General, in message to Inter-Parliamentary Union Bali meeting (SG/SM/10966, 30 April 2007): http://www.un.org/News/Press/docs/2007/sgsm10966.doc.htm Climate Change requires long-term global response, Secretary-General tells Security Council (SG/SM/10949-SC/9001-ENV/DEV/921, 17 April 2007): http://www.un.org/News/Press/docs/2007/sgsm10949.doc.htm ‘True global partnership for development’ needed to confront climate change, halt aids, reduce inequality, says Secretary-General at New York Ceremony (SG/SM/10837, 10 January 2007): http://www.un.org/News/Press/docs//2007/sgsm10837.doc.htm As climate changes, can we? By Kofi A. Annan (Washington Post, 8 November 2006): http://www.un.org/News/ossg/sg/stories/articleFull.asp?TID=58&Type=Article An investment in our collective future / by Jan Egeland (30 October 2006): http://www.reliefweb.int/rw/rwb.nsf/db900SID/KKEE-6V4SQX?OpenDocument Facing the Climate Change Challenge / an Editorial by Achim Steiner and Yvo de Boer (October 2006): http://www.unep.org/Documents.Multilingual/Default.asp?DocumentID=485&ArticleID=5412&l=en