Financial Times-'Seal the deal' battlecry to secure legacy
Harvey Morris, 21 September 2009
Posted around United Nations headquarters are photographs of Ban Ki-moon on a visit to Antarctica bearing the slogan "Seal the Deal", an exhortation to negotiators to reach an agreement on climate change at Copenhagen.
Since taking up the leadership of the UN in 2007, the secretary-general has made global warming his number one priority and attempted to keep the issue on the agenda amid the immediate preoccupations of member states.
"At a difficult time in his tenure, Copenhagen is an opportunity Ban needs to grab with both hands," says Dean Bialek, who deals with climate issues at Independent Diplomat, a New York-based non-profit diplomatic advisory group. "He needs not only to 'seal the deal', but to make the Copenhagen agreement one that speaks for all countries, especially those at the forefront of the potentially devastating impacts of climate change."
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