UN Ban Ki-moon Hopes Obama to Star at Mini-Summit

UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon is organizing a meeting where he hopes Obama will promote a new U.S. environmental policy position to an international audience. Ban apparently plans to invite Obama and several dozen other world leaders to New York in late March to discuss climate change before high-level talks on the global financial crisis in London on April 2. The discussion could help accelerate international negotiations ahead of the UN climate meeting in Copenhagen this December. So far, it is unclear if Obama will participate. Read more at Reuters