Really Wanted Modi To Attend UN Climate Change Summit: Ban Ki-Moon

The day-long climate change summit will be one the “largest and biggest” gathering of world leaders with about 120 heads of states, including U.S President Barack Obama to participate in the event.

Ban said it is “extremely difficult to have at one day, at one time and at one place 120 heads of states and government” and the strong participation shows the “very strong commitment” on part of leaders on climate change and other global crises.

Earlier this month, Ban’s spokesperson had said that while the Chinese President and Modi will not be attending the Secretary General’s climate change summit, “the important issue for us is really on the commitments that countries will bring. And the Secretary-General expects every Member State to come with strong and bold commitments on climate change.”

Modi is expected to reach New York on September 26 and will address the UN General Assembly the next day, giving his first global speech to an audience of nearly 200 world leaders and foreign ministers at the annual gathering of the world body’s policymaking organ.

According to the report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, headed by Indian Nobel laureate Rajendra Pachauri, the world is presently on a path that would well exceed the two degree Celsius (3.6°F) rise in temperature

 limit that countries have set to ensure that the world would not suffer the worst impacts of climate change.   

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