BERN, Switzerland ? The U.N. secretary-general has urged representatives of parliaments to confront staggering government deficits by building more trust with citizens and turning to cleaner energy sources.
Ban Ki-moon opened the Inter-Parliamentary Union's 125th assembly Sunday night.
He said governments "everywhere" are confronting huge deficits, but the biggest challenge is to overcome "a deficit of trust" that they will do the right thing.
The IPU includes lawmakers from 157 countries, but the United States notably isn't a member.
Ban emphasized his No. 1 priority of sustainable development by calling on the world's major economic powers to join a binding climate treaty and to cut in half planetary emissions of greenhouse gases by 2050.
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