UN attacks climate change as threat to peace

Title :

UN attacks climate change as threat to peace

Type :

Newspaper article

Date :

17 April 2007

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Link to UN press release: http://www.un.org/News/Press/docs/2007/sc9000.doc.htm

Link to International Heralad Tribune article: http://www.iht.com/articles/2007/04/17/news/climate.php

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The United Nations Security Council on Tuesday opened its first meeting on global climate change as a threat to international political stability, with Britain hailing the debate as a landmark.

"This is a groundbreaking day in the history of the Security Council" Foreign Secretary Margaret Beckett of Britain told reporters, "What makes wars start- fights over water, changing patterns of rainfall, fights over food production, land use. There are few greater potential threats."