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 UNITED NATIONS (AP) - Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon expressed hope that the U.S. will take a leadership role in combatting climate change — which he said poses as much danger to mankind as war and is likely to fuel future conflicts.
After a Thursday address to hundreds of students from around the world, Ban was asked what he thought about the rejection by President Bush's administration of the Kyoto protocol, the 1997 pact that requires 35 industrial nations to cut their global-warming gases by an average 5 percent below 1990 levels by 2012.
Ban said he thought there was now an "active discussion" going on within the U.S. government regarding Kyoto, and that he hopes this debate among lawmakers in the world's biggest polluter will lead to more action.
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