Ban talks climate pact with French leader
The urgent need to forge consensus on a new climate change pact aimed at curbing harmful greenhouse gases dominated Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon's talks Friday with French President Nicolas Sarkozy.
Following a working lunch with the French leader, Ban told reporters in New York that he is "very grateful" for Sarkozy's "full commitment to work together to 'seal the deal' in Copenhagen on a globally acceptable climate change deal."
In December in the Danish capital, countries are expected to wrap up negotiations on an ambitious successor pact to the Kyoto Protocol, whose first commitment period ends in 2012, according to a report of UN News Centre received in Dhaka yesterday.
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