Equal threats:

http://environment.guardian.co.uk/climatechange/story/0,,2025277,00.html

Climate change is our top priority, says UN chief


Hilary Osborne and agencies
Friday March 2, 2007
Guardian Unlimited


The United Nations secretary general, Ban Ki-moon, addresses students from the UN international school in New York.
Climate change poses at least as big a threat to the world as war, the new UN secretary general, Ban Ki-moon, warned last night.
Addressing students at a UN conference in New York, Mr Ban said he planned to make the fight against climate change one of his top priorities in his new role and that he hoped the US would help lead the way.

So, he hopes the US will lead the way. I suppose they will need some money to throw around and the US is as good a piggy bank as any other....