NEW YORK - The United Nations Secretary General Ban Ki-moon opened the summit on climate change at the UN accusing the international community for the "glacial slowness" of the negotiations on new international treaty. On the same wavelength as the U.S. president Barack Obama has warned that: "We risk an irreversible catastrophe." The first day dell'assise also has a promise, albeit vague, by Beijing, President Hu Jintao said that China aims to reduce a "significant margin" by 2020 andiride carbon emissions per unit of GDP. The summit was organized by the same Ban Ki-moon to emerge from the impasse in light of the international negotiations in Copenhagen in December.
Ban Ki-moon. Speaking from the podium of the Assembly, the Secretary-General recalled that, although the conference in Copenhagen is to agree on a new treaty in December, "the actual days for negotiations are only fifteen." According to Ban a failure in Copenhagen would be "morally unjustifiable economically short-sighted, politically unwise: we can not go that route" because, he said, "the story could not offer us an opportunity better than this." Ban Ki-moon stressed that "we have less than ten years to avoid worst case scenarios" caused by global warming. The number one of the UN, recently on a mission to the North Pole, has also warned that "the Arctic ice could disappear by 2030 and the consequences would be felt by the peoples of every continent." Climate change, Ban continued, mostly affects the less developed countries, particularly Africa, where "the climate change threat to erase years of development destabilizing states and overthrowing governments. "Ban appealed to the developed countries, inviting them" to take the first step, "because" if you do - continued the Secretary-General - other bold steps will be taken. "To the head of the UN, the new treaty must include "goals for emissions reduction by 2020" and "financial and technological support" to countries in the developing world, namely those who "have contributed the least to this crisis but suffered the most and first. "
Obama. alarming words of U.S. president: the threat,
said, is" serious, urgent and growing: if nothing is done to deliver risk alle future generazioni una catastrofe irreversibile". Obama ha detto che gli Stati Uniti hanno "fatto più negli ultimi otto mesi per promuovere l'energia pulita e ridurre l'inquinamento da anidride carbonica che in qualsiasi altro periodo della nostra storia". E ha sottolineato il cambio di passo in materia di lotta al riscaldamento del pianeta fatto dalla sua amministrazione rispetto a quella del suo predecessore George W. Bush. "Non siamo venuti qui a celebrare i progressi raggiunti - ha detto ancora Obama - ma perché ci sono ancora passi da compiere. Non dobbiamo farci illusioni quanto al fatto che la parte più difficile è davanti a noi", ha affermato il leader della Casa Bianca. Obama ha insistito molto sulle difficoltà che dovranno essere affrontate but stressed that "the difficulties can not be an excuse for inaction." "All of us - he continued - we face doubts and difficoiltà in our capital." "The time left to run for cover is about to expire," he warned Obama. "The security and stability of all nations and all peoples - our prosperity, our health and our security - at risk" because of the climate threat, he added that the U.S. president called on countries emerging coma China and India "to do their part" to address global warming by taking "vigorous measures". If the climate there is an attitude "flexible and pragmatic", "achieving the goal of a world più pulito e più sicuro", ha detto ancora Obama. "Sappiamo che il futuro del pianeta dipende dal nostro impegno - ha aggiunto - Il percorso è lungo e difficile, non è rimasto molto tempo". 
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