Climate Change: UN Makes High-Risk Attempt to Break Deadlock on Talks

The United Nations secretary general is to invite world leaders this week to an unprecedented summit on climate change, in the hope of breaking the long deadlock on global warming talks. The high-risk strategy will put heads of state and government together to talk about the issue for the first time since the Copenhagen summit in 2009 ended in scenes of farce and disarray.

Ban Ki-moon has decided he must convene the meeting because of the stalemate in the talks for the past four years, with international action dwindling even as greenhouse gas emissions continue to rise strongly, and scientific warnings over the consequences grow more strident.

Climate Change:  UN Makes High-Risk Attempt to Break Deadlock on Talks