The lack of efforts to address the climate change and youth unemployment could give rise to new "terrorist fighters," Ban Ki-moon told Canadian CBS's anchor Margo McDiarmid.
"When we do not address climate change properly it may also affect many people who are frustrated and who are impacted, then there is some possibility that these young people who [are] jobless and frustrated may join these foreign terrorist fighters," Ban said.
"There is a concern whether it may overshadow the climate change agreement and I think we have to move on this climate change agreement," he said.
UN SecGen says failure to address climate change can lead to frustrated young people joining terrorists groups #hw
— Margo McDiarmid (@Mcdiarmm) November 28, 2015
The UNSG lauded the French president's decision to go to Malta for the Commonwealth Summit dedicated to climate change and terrorist threats on Friday.
"I highly commend the leadership of President Hollande, who has decided to carry on," the UN chief said.
François Hollande met with global leaders on Saturday to promote an ambitious international deal to cut man-made gas emissions which have been on the agenda and roundly known as the main reason of global warming nowadays.
French President Francois Hollande says humans are their own worst enemy in both terrorism and in climate change #hw
— Margo McDiarmid (@Mcdiarmm) November 27, 2015
The UN Climate Conference in Paris, scheduled for November 30 through December 11, will focus on global warming and ways to decrease greenhouse gas emissions. In the wake of high security alert in Paris after attacks on November, 13, the world leaders and climate activists from 196 countries will meet under guard of thousands of troops and police.
On Saturday, the climate conference's "keys" were symbolically given in to the UN climate change agency by French Foreign Minister Laurent Fabius.
"The keys to the (conference) are now in the hands of the UN, a symbolic key of hope," Fabius tweeted after handing over a giant key to Christiana Figueres, head of the U.N. Framework Convention on Climate Change.
La clé du Bourget est désormais entre les mains de l'ONU. Une clé symbole d'espoir pour la @COP21 cc @CFigueres pic.twitter.com/oBlF3bszIm
— Laurent Fabius (@LaurentFabius) November 28, 2015
Both Fabius and Hollande have visited many countries this year in order to push and gain support over the controversy climate deal.
The primary goal of the UN Climate Change Conference 2015 is the signing of a global deal on climate change to replace the 1997 Kyoto Protocols, which only applied to industrialized countries. Despite taking part in the negotiations on those accords, the US — one of the world's biggest polluters — didn't ratify the treaty and become a party.
Around 150 world leaders are expected to be gathered in Paris at the UN Climate Change summit.
