December 2014: A last-minute deal salvages UN climate talks in Lima, Peru and sends a signal that it's possible to overcome a divide between rich and poor nations on how much each should provide to combat global warming.

In this Dec. 10, 2015, file photo, U.N. Secretary General Ban Ki-moon, delivers a speech during a conference at the COP21, the United Nations Climate Change Conference in Le Bourget, north of Paris. AP File Photo. UNITED NATIONS, United States—The ...

(CNSNews.com) - One year before the end of his second and final term in office, United Nations secretary-general Ban Ki-moon says he has spent “most of my time and energy” at the helm of the global body focused on one issue - climate change.

French president Francois Hollande, president of the COP21 Laurent Fabius, United Nations climate chief Christiana Figueres and United Nations Secretary General Ban Ki-moon hold their hands up in celebration after the final conference at the COP21, the ...

“The seventeen Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) are our shared vision of humanity and a social contract between the world's leaders and the people,” UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon said of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development adopted ...

Seven decades later, in Paris, nations have united in the face of another threat -- the threat to life as we know it due to a rapidly warming planet.

Amid the tug-of-war between domestic parties, Ban has so far remained reticent over his political plans. Last year, Ban received good press over his role in the international forum, especially over the Paris agreement on climate change. As the UN's ...

United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon reacts is pictured during an interview with Reuters during the World Climate Change Conference 2015 (COP21) in Le Bourget, near Paris, France, December 12, 2015. REUTERS/Jacky Naegelen. By Louis ...

A new sustainable development agenda adopted by 193 countries to transform the world for people and planet will guide global development action for the next 15 years, the United Nations (UN) has said. ... “The 17 SDGs are our shared vision of humanity ...

With the imminent launch of a new centrist political party by Ahn Cheol-soo, the leading parties are accelerating their search for a game changer: a well-known and respected public figure who can unite their flock and engage swing voters; somebody like ...

AT PRESENT, much is being made of the recent climate change agreement. Despite the protests coming from some quarters during the recent meeting in Paris, France, that witnessed the signing of this historic agreement, many people all over the world ...

America IS a Great Nation. We've become a great Nation not by our great size, nor by our great wealth, nor by the strength of our great military.

But if two pounds of beef protein is equivalent to the carbon footprint of a six-hour flight, if you multiply that by the seven billion people on the planet - that's more than enough greenhouse gases to circle the world a few dozen times and go to the ...

The new study , published Monday in the journal Nature Climate Change, focuses on a part of the ice sheet known as "firn" - a porous layer of built-up snow that slowly freezes into ice over time.

... secretary-general (SG) of the United Nations. As Ban Ki-moon prepares to step down at the end of 2016 after two five-year terms, U.N. watchers have been speculating for months about his successor—and the process by which he (or she) will be ...

As “one in a whole nation's census […] formed ... The voyage also yields political allegory, as numerous hints frame the Pequod as a symbolic “ship of state”, with running analogies between the whaling voyage and the United States' imperial expansion ...

“The Paris Agreement on climate change is a sign of hope in troubled times. It is a triumph for multilateralism that shows the United Nations delivering results the world desperately needs,” UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon observed during his year-end ...