Viewpoints on Climate Change from the 2014 UN Summit

This post will be of particular interest to those of you who were involved in the recent Grade 11 debate and anyone who has been or is involved in the MUN Programme.

On September 23rd 2014 in New York City, a UN Climate Change summit was held. Ban Ki Moon, the UN leader invited government leaders to unite in concrete action towards a low carbon world, challenging each country to bring bold statements containing pledges to close the emissions gap. Sound familiar Grade 11?

Ban Ki Moon opened the summit by stating to world leaders "you are not here to talk, you are here to make history". Leonardi Di Caprio (UN peace envoy) further supported this statement by saying "make history or you will be vilified".

The link below is to the 3 minute opening video for the summit which is worth a watch.

http://www.un.org/climatechange/summit/2014/09/make-world-difference/

The interesting part of the summit however is who said what. Click on the link below and you can see what was said in the statements of all countries present. It might be particularly interesting to look at the Maldives. Unfortunately there is no statement from Oman or any of the other oil rich Arab states.

http://www.un.org/climatechange/summit/