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UN chief calls on Columbia University's new graduates to meet climate challenge

Xinhua, May 19, 2016 Adjust font size:

UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon on Wednesday called on new graduates of Columbia University to meet climate challenge and urged students in the prestigious U.S. educational institute to use their passion and compassion to help build a world in which all people enjoy dignity and peace.

"Despite the dangers we face, you must remember that you are graduating into an era of wondrous opportunity," the secretary-general said while speaking at the Columbia University Commencement Ceremony in New York.

Encouraging them to meet the climate test, Ban asked the new graduates not to vote for politicians who deny the problem and urged them not to buy products that are not sustainable. Endit