Transcript: U.N.'s Ban Ki-moon: "I am not some kind of alarmist"

WSJ: Were you a climate-change skeptic before your trip to Antarctica?

Mr. Ban: First of all I was not a skeptic at all. But I have been much more focused on this after I became the secretary general. I am going to visit the North Pole at the invitation of the Norwegian prime minister. I have been trying to visit all the places where I can learn of the consequences of global warming and send out messages. Basically I am not some kind of alarmist.

You may say I am a very soft-spoken person. But I have to speak out. I am quite firm and quite a disciplined person both in my personal code of conduct and discipline in principles. When it comes to principles, then I speak out. When out of 10 people 7 people agree, then that is the one that I take as a policy. I don't decide by myself a lot. Sometimes if I decide by myself, I may take a wrong choice. I always ask for the views of my senior advisors. And when out of 10, seven agree, that's what I believe.

On climate change I know that at head-of-state level there are some skeptics, but they are minorities of the minority. They don't have any place to stand. I don't conclude any meeting without mentioning climate change. We must get a deal in Copenhagen. That is not for my leadership or the leadership of the U.N. or the U.S., that is for the future of the whole humanity. I think political will will be important in Copenhagen and that is why I'm convening a summit [on the environment] in September [in New York.]

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We happened to listen to Mr. Ban, in the fall of 2006, at the Asia Society in New York, when he was still campaigning for the job at the UN, and asked him about climate change. He did not seem to be informed, and in private I predicted to him that this will become the most important topic the next UNSG will have to deal with. After he got the job, Mr. Ban just strengthened the hands of those at the UN that did not allow the subject of climate change surface at the UN, but were kept at shorter rein under his predecessor Kofi Annan. It took a while, and the push from the UK, until Mr. Ban relented and started to talk climate change, while his appointed staff still continued to interfere with the dissemination of information on the subject. Mr. Ban went to Addis Abeba Beginning of 2007, while African leaders had planned there a meeting on the impact of climate change, but the Ban Ki-moon UN Department of Public Information, and his Spokesperson, had no words on the subject, in effect they were active in not allowing the information to come out.