Summit on Climate Change

The Summit on Climate Change was convened by the United Nations Secretary General, Ban Ki-moon, on September 22, 2009.

Program
Speakers at the summit will include:
 * Ban Ki-moon, Secretary-General of the United Nations
 * Dr. Rajendra Pachauri, Chair, Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC)
 * Barack Obama, President of the United States of America -- see also Barack Obama statements on global warming;
 * Mohamed Nasheed, President of the Republic of Maldives
 * Hu Jintao, President of the Peoples Republic of China
 * Yukio Hatoyama, Prime Minister of Japan
 * Paul Kagame, President of Rwanda
 * Fredrik Reinfeldt, Prime Minister of Sweden
 * Oscar Arias Sánchez, President of Costa Rica
 * Nicolas Sarkozy, President of France
 * Professor Wangari Muta Maathai, Founder, Green Belt Movement, Kenya (Civil Society)

Website
Webcast: http://www.un.org/webcast/# Website: http://www.un.org/wcm/content/site/climatechange/cache/offonce/pages/2009summit;jsessionid=C55B9F70ABDA965AC9C6E9E406813F34

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