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14 November 2011 –
Climate
change is the single most
important challenge the world faces, Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon stressed today in Bangladesh, a
country that is all too familiar with the impact of extreme weather events and which the United Nations chief hailed as a global leader in disaster risk reduction.
In 1991, a cyclone killed more than 140,000
people in the South Asian nation. Then in 2007, when
another major cyclone struck, many volunteers helped move thousands of
people out o ....
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