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Bangladeshi children playing on the bank of the dried up river Kaliganga. ‘We must aim to keep the rise in global temperatures below the dangerous threshold of 2C.’ Photograph: Zakir Hossain Chowdhury/Zuma Press/Corbis

This year is the 70th anniversary of the United Nations, and the overarching goals are ending poverty and preventing the advance of climate change, writes Ban Ki-moon, UN secretary-general. "Ours is the first generation that can end poverty, and the last that can take steps to avoid the worst impacts of climate change," he writes. The Guardian (London)/Comment Is Free blog(1/12)