Cambio climático: ONU

WHY I CARE ABOUT CLIMATE CHANGE

The United Nations Climate Summit provided clear signals of how world leaders and the international community perceive the threat of climate change - and how they will tackle it.

"I care about climate change because climate change has the potential to make all our efforts on sustainable development irrelevant or ineffective," said the Chair of UN-Water, Michel Jarraud, in September at the UN's Climate Summit. At the opening of the event, Secretary-General, Ban Ki-moon emphasized the need for a clear and shared vision, which was echoed by other leaders.    Among the announcements at the summit, oil and gas companies pledged efforts to curb the release of methane gas, and some of the largest financial institutions will shift more than 200 billion dollars toward building low-carbon economies by 2015. Although the event was not intended to strike binding agreements it aimed to build momentum for the December 2015 UN climate conference in Paris.