“Earth to Ban Ki-moon” or how a deal was sealed in Copenhagen

Posted by Louis Charbonneau in Tuesday, December 22nd 2009   
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Sweden complained that the recent Copenhagen climate change summit was a “disaster.” British Prime Minister Gordon Brown described it as “at best flawed and at worst chaotic.” Sudan’s U.N. ambassador, Abdalmahmoud Abdalhaleem, dubbed the outcome confirmation of a “climate apartheid.” For South Africa it was simply “not acceptable.” U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon, who for over a year had been urging the 192 members of the United Nations to “seal the deal” in Copenhagen, saw things differently.

Norwegian memo sparks PR crisis for UN’s Ban Ki-moon

Posted by Louis Charbonneau in Friday, August 21st 2009   
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Ban Ki-moon isn’t having a good year for public relations. Halfway through a five-year term as U.N. secretary-general, he’s been hit with a wave of negative assessments by the Financial Times, The Economist, London Times, Foreign Policy and other media organizations.