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10 October 2015

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Success of 2030 Agenda Hinges on Partnerships, Secretary-General Tells Development Committee, Urging Greater World Bank Role in Capacity-Building, Fund Mobilization

Following are UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon’s remarks to the development committee meeting: World Bank Group support for the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development, in Lima on 10 October:

10 October 2015

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Implementing 2030 Agenda Requires ‘Data Revolution’ to Address Gaps in Collection, Quality, Secretary-General Tells Development Committee, Urging New Partnerships

Following are UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon’s remarks to the Development Committee Ministerial lunch “Investing in Evidence”, in Lima on 10 October:

8 October 2015

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Secretary-General Calls for Debt Relief, Other Financial Aid to Help Small Island Developing Countries Tackle Climate Change

Following is UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon’s message, delivered by Janos Pasztor, Assistant Secretary-General on Climate Change, to the meeting of the Vulnerable Twenty Group of Ministers of Finance, in Lima today:

6 October 2015

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Secretary-General Hails Election of Lee Hoesung as Chair of Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, as Governments Prepare for Paris Conference

The following statement was issued today by the Spokesman for UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon:

1 October 2015

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United Nations Stands with Pacific Countries on Front Lines of Climate Change, Secretary-General Tells Forum, Pledging to Operationalize Fund to Assist Them

Following are UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon’s remarks, as prepared for delivery, at the Pacific Islands Forum, in New York, today:

30 September 2015

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Cost of Delaying Action on Climate Change Could Be ‘Deadly’, Secretary-General Stresses at High-Level Event

Following is UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon’s message, delivered by Janos Pasztor, Assistant Secretary-General for Climate Change, to the high-level side event on climate change and security, in New York today:

29 September 2015

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Secretary-General Says Implementation Was ‘Litmus Test’ of New 2030 Agenda, Calling on Member States to Transform Words into Action

Following is UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon’s message, as delivered by Gyan Chandra Acharya, Under-Secretary-General and High Representative for the Least Developed Countries, Landlocked Developing Countries and Small Island Developing States, to an event on the Millennium Development Goals to the Sustainable Development Goals, “MDGs to SDGS: A Way Forward”, in New York today:

29 September 2015

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Fighting Discrimination, Ending Inequalities at ‘Heart’ of New 2030 Agenda, Secretary-General Tells ‘Fairer Future for All’ Event

Following is UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon’s message, delivered by Susana Malcorra, Chef de Cabinet, to the event “A Fairer Future for All: Fighting Inequalities and Discrimination at the Heart of the 2030 Agenda”, in New York today:

28 September 2015

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Secretary-General, at Closing of Climate Week NYC, Says Innovation, Collaboration Needed to Avert Worst Climate Change Impact

Following is UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon’s message, delivered by John Kufuor, former President of Ghana and the Secretary-General’s Special Envoy on Climate Change, to the Climate Week NYC signature event, in New York today:

27 September 2015

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Momentum of Sustainable Development Agenda Must Continue with ‘Robust Agreement in Paris’, Secretary-General Tells Press

Following are UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon’s remarks to the media after the high-level working lunch on climate change, in New York today: