United Nations Photo

Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon (centre, front row) poses for a group photo with speakers to address the opening and closing plenary sessions of the Summit on Climate Change.

Front row, from left: Fredrik Reinfeldt, Prime Minister of Sweden and President of the European Union; Tillman Joseph Thomas, Prime Minister of Grenada; Lars Løkke Rasmussen, Prime Minister of Denmark; Hu Jintao, President of the People's Republic of China; Mohamed Nasheed, President of the Republic of Maldives; Óscar Arias Sánchez, President of Costa Rica; Yukio Hatoyama, Prime Minister of Japan; and Paul Kagame, President of Rwanda.

Back row, from left: Wangari Muta Maathai, Nobel Laureate and Founder of the Green Belt Movement (Kenya); Rajendra Pachauri, Chair of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC); Djimon Hounsou, Academy Award nominee and actor, originally from Benin; and Yugratna Srivastava, thirteen-year-old Junior-Board representative from India for Asia-Pacific branch of the UN Environmental Programme youth initiative Tunza.