All round cooperation necessary to tackle climate change: Ban

New York, Sept 16 (PTI) The phenomenon of climate change
is turning out to be "worse than most projections", U.N. chief
Ban Ki-moon has said, pointing out the need for cooperation
among all sectors, including the faith community, to tackle
the crisis.

Global warming "is less in the news than last year," Ban
said at a service held at the Holy Family Church in New York
Monday. "Yet the evidence is all around that the problem is
worse than most projections."

The phenomenon is also spurring humanitarian crises, such
as Cyclone Nargis in Myanmar and hunger in Haiti and the Horn
of Africa, the U.N. Secretary General added.

Speaking on the eve of the sixty-third session of the
General Assembly, the Secretary-General pointed out that any
solution to climate change has to be truly global, with the
U.N. working in tandem with Member States.

"But we realise that governments cannot do the job
alone," he said, stressing the role of the faith community,
non-governmental organisations (N.G.O.s), the private sector
and others.

"We need all of our partners in this monumental effort to
address the global challenges of our time.