Food Security: Ban Ki-moon Calls on Copenhagen Climate Conference to Ensure an Agreement
[World Summit on Food Security] Ban Ki-moon Calls on Copenhagen Climate Conference to Reach an Agreement to Ensure
UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon said on the 16th that to ensure global food security, countries need to reach an agreement at the UN Climate Change Conference to be held in Copenhagen, Denmark, at the end of this year.
Speaking at the opening ceremony of the World Summit on Food Security that day, Ban Ki-moon said that food security and climate change are closely linked, and without climate security there can be no food security. Therefore, the Copenhagen Climate Change Conference held next month must reach an agreement so as to conclude a new binding international treaty on greenhouse gas emission reduction.
Ban Ki-moon said that today's food crisis is a wake-up call for tomorrow, and that by 2050 the global population is expected to reach 9 billion. At the same time, the global climate is changing, making food security face even more severe challenges.
The UN Food and Agriculture Organization warned that if the global average temperature rises by 2°C, potential agricultural output in Africa, Asia and Latin America will decline by 20% to 40%, while agricultural production in sub-Saharan Africa will be hit the hardest.
The organization estimates that this year the number of hungry and malnourished people worldwide exceeded 1 billion for the first time, reaching 1.02 billion, an increase of 100 million over last year. To draw attention to the global hunger problem, Ban Ki-moon launched a 24-hour fast on the 15th. Ban Ki-moon said that fasting is not pleasant, but for the countless poor people around the world plagued by hunger, going hungry is the cruel reality they must face every day.
The three-day World Summit on Food Security opened on the 16th at the Rome headquarters of the UN Food and Agriculture Organization, aiming to seek effective ways to help more than 1 billion people worldwide escape hunger.
Speaking at the opening ceremony of the World Summit on Food Security that day, Ban Ki-moon said that food security and climate change are closely linked, and without climate security there can be no food security. Therefore, the Copenhagen Climate Change Conference held next month must reach an agreement so as to conclude a new binding international treaty on greenhouse gas emission reduction.
Ban Ki-moon said that today's food crisis is a wake-up call for tomorrow, and that by 2050 the global population is expected to reach 9 billion. At the same time, the global climate is changing, making food security face even more severe challenges.
The UN Food and Agriculture Organization warned that if the global average temperature rises by 2°C, potential agricultural output in Africa, Asia and Latin America will decline by 20% to 40%, while agricultural production in sub-Saharan Africa will be hit the hardest.
The organization estimates that this year the number of hungry and malnourished people worldwide exceeded 1 billion for the first time, reaching 1.02 billion, an increase of 100 million over last year. To draw attention to the global hunger problem, Ban Ki-moon launched a 24-hour fast on the 15th. Ban Ki-moon said that fasting is not pleasant, but for the countless poor people around the world plagued by hunger, going hungry is the cruel reality they must face every day.
The three-day World Summit on Food Security opened on the 16th at the Rome headquarters of the UN Food and Agriculture Organization, aiming to seek effective ways to help more than 1 billion people worldwide escape hunger.