Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon also urges richer nations to contribute to a multi-billion dollar fund to help poorer countries cope with global warming which will become operational in January
The UN secretary-general urged all countries to formally sign on to the Copenhagen Accord to start tackling climate change and step up work toward a legally binding treaty in 2010.
Ban Ki-moon also urged richer nations to contribute to a multi-billion dollar fund to help poorer countries cope with global warming which will become operational in January.
Robert Orr, the UN policy coordination chief, said the document will shortly be opened for signatures from all countries.
"I urge all governments to formally sign on to the Copenhagen accord by registering their support" through the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change, Ban said.
"The faster we have all the signatures, the more momentum we can give it," he said.
Ban said the UN will seek to streamline the negotiating process, which was strongly criticized, ahead of the next UN climate conference in Mexico City in 2010.
He said he had already discussed ways to improve negotiations with Mexican President Felipe Calderon and is willing to discuss the issue with other world leaders, opinion makers, and civic leaders.
Ban said he will encourage world leaders "to directly engage in achieving a global legally binding climate change treaty in 2010."
The UN chief also urged countries to contribute "to ensure that the Copenhagen Green Climate Fund becomes fully operational as soon as possible."
Under the accord, developed countries will finance a 10 billion-dollars-a-year, three-year program starting in 2010 to fund developing nations' projects to deal with drought, floods and other impacts of climate change, and to develop clean energy. It also set a "goal" of mobilizing 100 billion dollars a year by 2020 for the same purposes.
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