Betsy Pisik
The Washington Times
July 30, 2008

UNITED NATIONS | Everyone complains about climate change, and the United Nations is finally doing something about it – on Friday, the temperature inside U.N. headquarters in New York will rise by 5 degrees.

Ban Ki-moon, the United Nations’ self-professed environmental secretary-general, ordered the “In-House Climate Change Initiative” to save energy, cut carbon emissions and try to mitigate climate change.

Officials said the monthlong experiment – dubbed “Cool U.N.” – also will allow engineers to test energy consumption and utility costs in the notoriously antiquated building.

It also will stretch the comfort and good will of about 4,500 staffers, who work in the glass-walled Secretariat, a veritable 39-story terrarium planted in full sun on the East River.

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