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UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon considered climate change a pressing global problem with a strong impact on international peace and security. Ban Ki-moon took leadership on the issue and brought it back to the UN process. Through a series of high-level events, he succeeded to translate the growing scientific consensus on climate change into broad political consensus for action. Using the power of his bully pulpit, the Secretary-General succeeded in mobilizing the momentum to reach an ambitious global climate deal, the 2015 Paris Agreement, signed in New York in April 2016 by an unprecedented number of 175 countries.

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  1. 1.

    SG/SM/10893-ENV/DEV/914, 1 March 2007.

  2. 2.

    Ibid.

  3. 3.

    Press Conference on Climate Change , 16 January 2007; GA/10606-ENV/DEV/944, 30 July 2007; SC/9000, 5663rd Meeting (AM & PM), 17 April 2007; ENV/DEV/949, 17 September 2007; Press Conference on Confronting Climate Change Report, 27 February 2007.

  4. 4.

    Press Conference on Climate Change, 16 January 2007.

  5. 5.

    Press Conference on by Executive Secretary of UNFCCC , 20 March 2007.

  6. 6.

    ENV/DEV/935, Sustainable Development Commission, 9 May 2007.

  7. 7.

    SC/9000, 5663rd Meeting (AM & PM), 17 April 2007.

  8. 8.

    GA/10607, Informal Thematic Debate, 31 July 2007.

  9. 9.

    GA/10607, Informal Thematic Debate, 31 July 2007; SG/SM/11235-ENV/DEV/955, 24 October 2007; GA/10687, General Assembly Thematic Debate on Climate Change , 11 February 2008.

  10. 10.

    Ibid.

  11. 11.

    GA/10607, Informal Thematic Debate, 31 July 2007; ENV/DEV/999-HQ/665, 30 July 2008; DPB, 1 August 2008.

  12. 12.

    DPB, 11 December 2008; SG/SM/11811-ENV/DEV/1006, 24 September 2008; Press Conference on Negotiations Towards Global Climate Change Agreement, 10 October 2008.

  13. 13.

    Press Conference by Head of UNFCCC to Update Status of Negotiations, 14 May 2009; Press Conference on Climate Talks at G-8 Summit, 15 July 2009; Press Conference by Chairman of IPCC , 20 July 2009.

  14. 14.

    SG/SM/12389, 29 July 2009.

  15. 15.

    ENV/DEV/1069, Summit on Climate Change , AM & PM Meetings, 22 September 2009; Press Conference by Director of Secretary-General’s Climate Change Support Team, 12 October 2009.

  16. 16.

    SG/SM/12684-ENV/DEV/1104, 21 December 2009; DSG/SM/488-ENV/DEV/1112-REC/233, 19 February 2010.

  17. 17.

    Press Conference by IPCC on Review of Procedures by InterAcademy Council, 30 August 2010; SG/SM/13077-ENV/DEV/1153, 30 August 2010.

  18. 18.

    SG/SM/13712-SC/10333-ENV/DEV/1224, 20 July 2011.

  19. 19.

    SC/10332, 6587th Meeting (AM & PM), 20 July 2011.

  20. 20.

    Ibid.

  21. 21.

    Press Conference on Request for ICJ Advisory Opinion on Climate Change , 3 February 2012; Press Conference on Impact of Climate Change on Marshall Islands, 15 February 2013.

  22. 22.

    Press Conference on UNFCCC Conference in Durban, 1 December 2011; SG/SM/13996-ENV/DEV/1244, Secretary-General’s Remarks to High-level Segment of Durban Climate Talks (COP-17), 6 December 2011; SG/SM/14550-ENV/DEV/1322, 27 September 2012; SG/SM/14696-ENV/DEV/1329, 4 December 2012; SG/SM/14708-ENV/DEV/1333, 10 December 2012.

  23. 23.

    SG/SM/15611-ECO/238-ENV/DEV/1407, 24 January 2014; SG/SM/16304-DEV/3140-EN/293, 2 November 2014; SG/SM/16186-ENV/DEV/1459, 23 September 2014; SG/SM/16190-ENV/DEV/1463, 23 September 2014.

  24. 24.

    SG/SM/16423-ENV/DEV/1482, 14 December 2014; SG/SM/16430, 17 December 2014.

  25. 25.

    SG/SM/16719-ENV/DEV/1512, 29 April 2015; SG/SM/16888-GA/11659-ENV/DEV/1534, 29 June 2015; SG/SM/17110-GA/11687, 25 September 2015; SG/SM/16710-ENV/DEV/1510, 28 April 2015.

  26. 26.

    SG/SM/17396-ENV/DEV/1614, 7 December 2015; SG/SM/17412-ENV/DEV/1622, 12 December 2015; SG/SM/17417-GA/11743-ENV/DEV/1623, 15 December 2015.

  27. 27.

    ENV/DEV/1713-L/T/4454, 21 September 2016.

  28. 28.

    DPB, 13 September 2016.

  29. 29.

    SG/SM/17738, 9 May 2016; ENV/DEV/1713-L/T/4454, 21 September 2016; SG/SM/18179-ENV/DEV/1729, 5 October 2016.

  30. 30.

    DPB, 9 November 2016; DPB, 14 November 2016.

  31. 31.

    SG/SM/14011-SOC/4784, 12 December 2011.

  32. 32.

    SG/SM/18279-ENV/DEV/1755, 18 November 2016; SG/SM/15087-ENV/DEV/1362, 7 June 2013; DPB, 10 June 2013; “Climate Change : How It Impacts Us All,” DPI/NGO Conference, NGO/624-PI/1792, 5 September 2007.

  33. 33.

    DSG/SM/792, 2 September 2014.

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Jesenský, M. (2019). Climate Change: Future in Our Hands. In: The United Nations under Ban Ki-moon. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-12220-1_3

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