Business leaders are pushing hard to change this system

But, unless African leaders change their ways, it will not.

Many leaders change their objectives and style over the course of their careers.

In moments of tumultuous historical change, leaders must become architects of a better world.

The Green Paper will not make EU leaders change their minds.

You even demanded that we change our leaders, and we did.

But change will require that China s leaders find a way out of their psychological ambivalence.

Ultimately, change will not come unless and until Sweden s leaders address these problems.

Apparently, the rate of change has been too rapid for Chinese leaders to adjust to it.

In short, it is time for China's leaders to change the chemistry of their long feud with Taiwan.

Younger leaders are more likely to be able to cope with the chop and change of difficult times.

First, world leaders are uniting to address the greatest challenge we face as a human family the threat of catastrophic climate change. Last week, 101 leaders from 163 countries met to chart the next steps toward December s all important UN climate change conference in Copenhagen.

The principal targets of the behavioural change campaign are filles libres, truck drivers, military personnel, young adults, opinion leaders, teachers at all levels, political leaders and population groups with a high concentration of refugees.

The challenge for Europe s leaders nowadays is to see that the economy, energy, and climate change are interdependent.

International business leaders at the World Economic Forum had identified climate change as one of the three most critical issues facing the world, and world leaders at the United Nations World Summit had placed climate change at the top of the political agenda, reconfirming their commitment to action under the Convention.

The EU s new global warming agreement may help win elections for leaders faced with voters scared by the prospect of climate change.

More recently, at the 2005 United Nations World Summit, world leaders had reiterated the importance of international efforts to combat climate change.

Managers are described as those who merely embrace processes and seek stability, while leaders tolerate risk and create change.

Leaders must be honest about the scale of the challenge and recognize that a systemic and transformational change, not incremental gestures, is required.

At the recent World Economic Forum in Davos, world leaders saw climate change, for the first time, topping the list of global concerns.

COPENHAGEN This December, global leaders will meet in Copenhagen to negotiate a new climate change pact to reduce carbon emissions.

Making a U turn is never easy for political leaders, but elections do provide an opportunity for a policy change.

The change was intended to reflect the profound transformations now under way in Africa as leaders begin to implement NEPAD.

(d) The demand of partner countries for tangible evidence of change and rapid results that gain leaders and governments credibility in the eyes of their citizens

It has changed how we do business, how we do politics, and even how we change our leaders at least some of the time.

Voting for change has sent a clear message making sure that Nepal s leaders follow the will of the people is an altogether different challenge.

All of this assumes that political leaders would select only a policy change that they think will be in their nation s long term interest.

If EU leaders hesitate to take action on climate change, they will be sabotaging their own economy s prospects for sustainable recovery.

Looking ahead, while China s leadership change is important, the country s leaders cannot decide things with the freedom that one might think.

We have only 12 short months to hammer out the elements of a global climate change accord before world leaders convene next December in Copenhagen.

ADDIS ABABA At the climate change summit in Copenhagen last December, political leaders expressed a strong will to urgently combat global warming.

Although political leaders are not focused on climate change, a big international event can capture their attention, as the Copenhagen conference did.

German leaders, by contrast, must reckon with a populace that is deeply resistant to rapid change, particularly when it involves job cuts.

Issues such as nuclear proliferation and the global environment and especially climate change have also snuck up on China s leaders (and everyone else).

Furthermore, leaders from across the political spectrum are questioning scientifically established principles such as anthropogenic climate change, evolution, and the benefits of vaccination with no scientific basis.

The changing climate on climate change provides political leaders in Europe and other potential members of this coalition of the willing an unprecedented opportunity to move beyond mere rhetoric.

His delegation proposed for the Committee's consideration the holding of a summit of world leaders only at that level could States give any meaningful political commitment to climate change.

But would China be happy with this division of labor? China s leaders should think hard about this question now before it is too late to change the situation.

Overstaying one s welcome may be the professional disease of political leaders, but it is above all incompatible with democracy as a framework for bringing about change without violence.

Political leaders in countries that produce coal, oil, and gas like the US, Australia, and Canada have pretended that climate change is a mere hypothesis.

Leaders of major US companies have decided that global man made climate change is real, must be controlled, and that business must play a constructive part in the process.

No one can deny the role of schools, civic and business leaders, and, of course, external forces in bringing about this change. But nor should one underestimate the importance of political leadership.

China recognizes that North Korea cannot continue in its present form, and would like to see its leaders transform the economy without undertaking substantial political change.

Sixteen political leaders and former diplomats combined principle with political realism to produce the most comprehensive proposals for change since the UN was created in 1945.

Moreover, global climate negotiations will reach a critical point in December, when world leaders meet for the United Nations Climate Change Conference in Paris. And the agendas of the forthcoming G 7 and G 20 summits will both feature measures to combat climate change.