[NYTr] Climate Change Threatens Human Race: UN Secretary General

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Climate Change Threatens Human Race, Says UN Secretary General

Havana, Dec 12 (acn) The human race could face extinction if it doesn't 
confront global warming, warned UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon on 
Tuesday at the Climate Change Conference underway in Bali.

Ban Ki-moon addressed the conference during debates on a new document 
to intensify the call to wealthy nations to reduce their greenhouse gas 
emissions that lead to global warming, reports Granma newspaper.

The secretary-general arrived to Bali to preside over the final days of 
the two-week conference that seeks to establish an agenda and time 
frame for talks leading to a pact on combating climate change to 
replace the Kyoto Protocol in 2012.

"The situation is so desperately serious that any delay could push us 
past the tipping point, beyond which the ecological, financial and 
human costs would increase dramatically. We are at a crossroad. One 
path leads to a comprehensive climate-change agreement, the other to 
oblivion. The choice is clear," warned Ban Ki-moon as criticism mounts 
towards the stance taken by the United States, Canada and Japan over 
their refusal to join a consensus while rejecting any agreement on the 
issue.