United Nations, August 27: United Nations Secretary- General Ban Ki-moon will visit North Pole next week to see the consequences of climate change so as to persuade world leaders to step up efforts for environment conservation.
“The purpose of my visiting the North Pole is again to see for myself the consequences of melting glaciers in the North Pole. It is two years since my visit to Antarctica, the opposite Pole,” Ban told reporters yesterday.
During his two-day stay, Ban will visit polar stations and research institutes on Longyearbyen, a town on the Norwegian island of Spitsbergen, deep inside the Arctic Circle. “There I would like to send out a strong message to the world on what I have seen,” ban said.
“This is an accelerating phenomenon of global warming.
–PTI