“Without exaggeration, we can say: the future of our planet is at stake,” UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon said. - Photo by AP

DURBAN: UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon on Tuesday urged deadlocked climate talks in Durban to work urgently for solutions, saying “the future of our planet is at stake.”

“It would be difficult to overstate the gravity of this moment,” Ban said at the start of a four-day meeting of the world's environment ministers.

“Without exaggeration, we can say: the future of our planet is at stake – people's lives, the health of the global economy, the very survival of some nations.”

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