NEW YORK, New York, September 24, 2007 (ENS) - National leaders from across the world are gathering at United Nations Headquarters in New York today for the largest ever high level meeting on climate change. The talks are expected to produce a strong call for action to address the planet's rising temperature that threatens higher sea levels, water scarcity, extreme weather patterns, a wave of extinctions, and the spread of tropical diseases.
UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon convened the brainstorming session of more than 80 heads of state and government with a view to increasing the political will to limit the emission of greenhouse gases produced by human activities such as the burning of coal, oil and gas.
"We cannot go on this way for long," says Ban. "We cannot continue with business as usual. The time has come for decisive action on a global scale."
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