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The President of Mongolia Mr Ts.Elbegdorj addressed the United Nations Climate Change Summit which ran Tuesday within the 69th session of the UN General Assembly in New York City.
Noting that the countries’ leaders have gathered to "confirm anew our strong determination and political leadership in declaring specific actions to address climate challenges", the President said "we are at a tipping point, no one country is immune to climate change. Even my Mongolia, which has an extraordinarily friendly livelihood and tradition to live in harmony with nature, is suffering a lot because of climate change".
"The climate change issue is no longer a science fiction. It is no longer a science debate. The climate change has become a real life issue. If you still have doubts whether climate change is happening or not--come to Mongolia" he said.
"Ask herdsmen ‘is climate change happening?’ Our herdsmen will give you a true answer. They already told me 'It is happening, and happening for real'.
“Yesterday I was at Columbia University at the round-table on climate change. One expert on climate change said that if global warming exceeds 2 degrees Celsius, the disaster that may have happened once in a million year might happen every year” Mr Elbegdorj went on.
The President also underlined that our planet is becoming too dangerous to live. “We, the human family, are running out of time. But we cannot run out of our Planet Earth. We have to save it. We have to act now," he stressed.
Mr Elbegdorj noted that two days ago the Secretary-General of the UN had marched in New York for a wake-up call for climate change.

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