UN Secretary General Ban Ki-Moon urged US business leaders to endorse carbon trading as a "major economic opening" during a closed-door speech in Washington last week.rn"You should view it as an opportunity to be rewarded and recognized for doing the environmentally sound thing," Moon told the executives in an address at the US Chamber of Commerce, according to a copy of his prepared remarks released by the UN.rnMoon rejected the notion that voluntary emission-reduction programs will be effective, given the severity of global warming and the consequences and inaction. "Innovative market mechanisms are one way of addressing climate change," he told the US business officials.
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