UN chief appoints 2 new envoys on climate change
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Mr. Kufour and Mr. Stoltenberg are recognized for their commitment to public police and environmental work.
As its President, Mr. Kufour led Ghana to become the first country in Sub-Saharab Africa to cut in half the proportion of people who suffer from hunger and poverty, and those living on less than a dollar per day.
He also served as Chairman of the Sanitation and Water for All Partnership, among other positions.
Mr. Stoltenberg, who worked with Mr. Ban before on climate change, led a 21-member High Level Advisory Group on Climate Financing along with Ethiopian Prime Minister Meles Zenawi.
The Panel found that mobilizing $100 billion a year by 2020 for climate financing would be challenging, but feasible. "If we are to reach this goal, we will need a mix of new public sources, a scaling-up of existing public sources and increased private flows," the Panel's report highlighted.
In 2010, Mr. Stoltenberg convened a group consisting of the most important forest countries to coordinate and contribute to measures against deforestation in these countries and to give forests a central role in a new climate agreement.
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