AFP
Bratislava, Slovakia
UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon on Monday urged nations to look beyond narrow interests at an upcoming world climate conference, warning that "we don't have a planet B."
Complaining that global talks aimed at curbing climate change have so far been "slow" and "frustrating" due to negotiators focussing on "narrow national perspectives", Ban urged member states to work faster.
"We don't have any 'plan B' because we don't have any 'planet B'," he told journalists in the Slovak capital Bratislava.
The UN's COP21 conference, running from November 30 to December 11 in Paris, aims at securing a pact on greenhouse gases that would limit global warming to two degrees Celsius (35.6 degrees Fahrenheit) over pre-industrial times.
"Paris is not the destination but it should be a turning point in our efforts to address the climate change," Ban said, adding that he was "reasonably optimistic" the talks would be successful.
