Secretary-General and President of France Attend CHOGM Climate Change Session
Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon (on panel, left) and Nicolas Sarkozy (on panel, second from left), President of France, attend the 2009 Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting (CHOGM)'s Special Plenary Session on Climate Change at the Hyatt Regency Hotel in Port of Spain, Trinidad and Tobago. Although France is not a member of the Commonwealth, Mr. Sarkozy traveled to Port of Spain to mobilize support for a legally binding climate change treaty, on the agenda at the December 2009 UN Climate Change Conference in Copenhagen.