UN Seeks to Restore Climate Change as a Top Global Priority

Other topics include how to make “clever” use of new technologies to deepen direct ties with what the U.N. calls “civil society,” meaning novel ways to bypass its member nation states and deal directly with constituencies that support U.N. agendas

FOXNEWS Sep 8, 2010 | After a year of humiliating setbacks, United Nations Secretary General Ban ki-Moon and about 60 of his top lieutenants—the top brass of the entire U.N. system—spent their Labor Day weekend at a remote Austrian Alpine retreat, discussing ways to put their sprawling organization in charge of the world’s agenda.

Details concerning the two-day, closed-door sessions in the comfortable village of Alpbach were…

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