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Media Advisory

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United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon is convening a High-Level Event at UN Headquarters on 24 September 2007 to accelerate a global response to climate change. The Secretary-General hopes that the Event will send a powerful political signal to the negotiators at the United Nations Climate Change Conference in Bali in December that "business as usual" is no longer an option and that they are ready to work jointly towards a comprehensive multilateral framework for action after 2012, when the emission targets under the Kyoto Protocol expire.

Participants

The High-Level Event is expected to be attended by over 150 countries, more than half of which will be represented at the level of Heads of State or Government.

Format

The Event will consist of an opening session in the General Assembly Hall, followed by four simultaneous plenary sessions on the issues of adaptation, mitigation, technology, and financing. In addition to world leaders and other heads of delegation, a number of civil society and business leaders will speak.

The Secretary-General will open the Event and close it with a presentation of a summary of the main points articulated by the speakers during the Event. The closing session will be followed by a press conference with the Secretary-General.

Access

All sessions will be open to the media. Access to the meeting rooms will be subject to space and security constraints. All segments of the High-Level Event will be webcast live (and on-demand) in English and the floor languages. The press conferences will be webcast in English only.

Media Opportunities with Senior United Nations Officials

The Secretary-General’s Special Envoys on Climate Change - Gro Harlem Brundtland, Ricardo Lagos, and Han Seung-soo - will be present at the Event and available for interviews that dayas well as before. In addition, a number of senior UN officials will be attending and available for interviews on or before 24 September. Among them are Yvo de Boer, Executive Secretary of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change, Achim Steiner, Executive Director of the United Nations Environment Programme, Kemal Derviş, Administrator of the United Nations Development Programme, Sha Zukang, Under-Secretary-General for Economic and Social Affairs, Rajendra Pachauri, Chairman of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, Michel Jarraud, Secretary-General of the World Meteorological Organization, and Ahmed Djoghlaf, Executive Secretary of the Convention on Biological Diversity.

For more information and to schedule interviews, please contact the Inter-Agency Media Team:
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