UN chief: Climate summit will ‘lay the framework’ for carbon price

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The United Nations climate summit on Sept. 23 will “help lay the framework for putting a price on carbon,” UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon said Tuesday.

Ban said the meeting of more than 120 heads of states in New York will also “promote innovative financing mechanisms” to move beyond investments in fossil fuels, and that it would seek to make the “case for removing policy ambiguity” in hopes of pushing nations toward cleaner energy sources.

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