Here's How Everyone, Everywhere Can Be a Climate Champion

Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon (right) and former New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg. UN Photo/Eskinder Debebe (file photo)

Last week, I named former New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg as my Special Envoy for Cities and Climate Change. He will help us reach out to mayors to highlight the important role cities play in addressing climate change and advancing climate solutions, many of which are already being showcased in the world’s urban regions.

I have also appointed John Kufuor, former President of Ghana, and Jens Stoltenberg, former Prime Minister of Norway, as Special Envoys on Climate Change, to mobilize political will and encourage global leaders to bring concrete actions to the 2014 Climate Summit that I will host in New York on 23 September.

I am looking to these and other leaders to inspire people to do all they can to take action on climate change. In this crucial year for climate action, we need everyone, everywhere, to become a climate champion.

More people than ever before understand that climate change is a reality and want to help ensure a healthy planet for future generations. There are many ways that individuals can make a difference – from increasing energy efficiency at home to buying local and green products, reducing your carbon footprint and greening your investment portfolio.

Over the next few months, look out for new ways to get involved through the UN’s social media platforms.

Be a climate champion -- stay informed and spread the word that climate change is not only a big challenge but also a huge opportunity to build a better future for each and every one of us.

Find out more about how you can take climate action.

Find out more about the 2014 Climate Summit.

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The goal of ending poverty is elusive, and those in the aid business seem to oscillate between giddiness and despair, between the excitement of the latest miracle cure and accusations of failure or worse The use of multibillion dollar farm subsidies in the US and Europe, which hurt poor, agricultural-based countries, and pervasive corruption and cronyism, which hamper growth and prove distortional in developing and developed economies alike, More than 3 billion people—nearly half the world—live on less than $2 per day. Tens of thousands of children die every day from conditions associated with Poverty, more than 1 million each year from diarrhea alone. Millions lack Access to lifesaving immunizations that are routine in the West. More than 1 Billion lack access to adequate water supplies. One of the important commitments required to meet the MDGs was for Wealthy nations to increase their aid to 0.7 percent of gross national income, A target that had been in place since the mid-1960s. However, most of these Nations remain far short of that goal. The biggest development successes have come in Asia, a vast region with more than half the world’s population. Economic growth in China, India, Korea, and many other countries. “We also know that progress in the most impoverished parts of our world enriches us all—not only because it creates new markets, more stable order in certain regions of the world, but also because it’s the right thing to do. In many places, people live on little more than a dollar a day. So the United States will join with our allies to eradicate such extreme poverty in the next two decades by connecting more people to the global economy; by empowering women; by giving our young and brightest minds new opportunities to serve, and helping communities to feed, and power, and educate themselves; by saving the world’s children from preventable deaths; and by realizing the promise of an AIDS-free generation, which is within our reach.”

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Agbontaen Uyi Moses

Pharmacy Technician at Mosesco pharmac

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Life is all about changing.

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Lin C.S.

Chairman at Taiwan Trust Association

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Efforts to clean air, water, energy, social relationships, business developments, political environment, and religious minds. from Charles Lin in Taiwan, the Island of Formosa

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Asrat Worku

President at Ethiopian Motor Sport Association

10 年

Unlimited millage or without manufacturing year limit second hand cars ,trucks and factories imported around the globe are poisoning our climate due to high-level of carbon emission beyond any person wildest imagination . Any joint solutions from the developed and underdeveloped countries not to export and import those machines which are one of the main sources of carbon emission?

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bob crew

Author, writer, journalist at Self Employed for business and financial, education and training, management and marketing, media and PR, company history and corporate culture-change projects.

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Too little, too late, as every honest scientist will tell you. But don't say this out loud, as we don't want to frighten the horses! Bob Crew, author of "Nelson Mandela: His Life and Legacy for South Africa and The World" on Amazon here: https://www.amazon.com/Mandela-Legacy-South-Africa-World/dp/1629143375/ref=tmm_hrd_title_0. Also on Goodreads, in the bookshops and on kindle

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