Global warming must be top priority for UN, says Beckett
By David Usborne
Published: 23 September 2006
Tackling climate change and averting the threat of rising sea levels, increased droughts and associated famines should become the greatest priority for the United Nations, the Foreign Secretary, Margaret Beckett, said yesterday.
Addressing the UN General Assembly, Mrs Beckett said planetary warming "presents us with an ever-growing threat to international security" that one day might eclipse everything else the UN did.
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