Planet Earth is our shared island, let us join forces to protect it

Between now and 2015, we must make sure that promises made become promises kept. The consequences of doing otherwise are profound: death, illness and despair, needless suffering, lost opportunities for millions upon millions of people.

It is but a short step from hunger to starvation, from disease to death.

I strongly reject threats by any member state to destroy another or outrageous attempts to deny historical facts such as the Holocaust.

I spend most of my time in South Korea but at least one-third of my time is spent traveling around the world, meeting people, speaking about climate change and sustainable development and trying to foster global citizenship especially for young people. What I observe is there clearly is a need for global citizenship. That is exactly right. We are having troubles around the world. We need global vision.

Climate change...is, simply, the greatest collective challenge we face as a human family.

My observation is China is thinking more as a global player than regionally, in both politics and economics.