Is the UN already starting to hedge on the alleged global warming threat?

According to this Times Online article, the UN has come out with another "environmental audit".

The article contains this puzzling sentence:

Climate change was identified as one of the most pressing problems but the condition of fresh water supplies, agricultural land and biodiversity were considered to be of equal concern.

Just a couple of weeks ago, we saw this:

Former Vice President Al Gore and a United Nations panel on climate change were named cowinners of the 2007 Nobel Peace Prize on Friday for their work against global warming.

Gore, who shares the award with the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, said at a news conference that global warming “truly is a planetary emergency,” and that he would donate his portion of the Nobel prize money - about $750,000 - to the Alliance for Climate Protection, a nonprofit environmental group. Gore is chairman of its board.

“That amount is very small compared to the enormous challenge that lies ahead,” Gore said in brief remarks at the news conference in Palo Alto, Calif., where he is presenting his now-famous slide show on global warming. "It is the most dangerous challenge we have ever faced."

I'm wondering if someone at the UN has enough sense to notice things like that pesky southern hemisphere's refusal to warm.

If so, maybe they're thinking it might make sense to start showing more concern about other environmental problems, rather than putting all their eggs in the global warming catastrophe basket.