United Nations
Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon
The United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) is an international treaty that resulted from the United Nations Conference on Environment and Development in 1992. The parties to the convention meet annually to assess progress in dealing with climate change. Ban Ki-moon became UN Secretary General on January 1, 2007. Prior to that, he was foreign minister of the Republic of Korea. The following is excerpted from Secretary-General Ban’s address to the 2007 United Nations Climate Change Conference in Bali, Indonesia, on December 12, 2007. As we convene here in Bali, the eyes of the world are upon us….
