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UN chief Ban Ki-moon on Tuesday said getting a binding agreement sealed on climate change was among his top priorities for the year after the Copenhagen conference that marked "an important step forward".
Listing his seven priorities for 2010 to the General Assembly, Ban placed at the top of his 'to-do' list efforts to meet the Millennium Development Goals by 2015, while on the second spot he put the target of reaching a binding agreement on climate change.
"Copenhagen marked an important step forward. But there is tremendous work to do in 2010... Our second strategic priority in 2010 is to negotiate a binding agreement on climate change, as well as to deliver on commitments made to date," Ban said.
He said for the purpose he would work in cooperation with political leaders of the world and asked world nations to set more ambitious target cuts to achieve the goal of limiting global temperature rise by 2 degree celsius.
He said world leaders must come to Mexico, where a follow up climate summit is to be held this year, with the aim of achieving a solution.
The Copenhagen Climate Change Conference, which was held in December in the Danish capital failed to produce the anticipated legally-binding Copenhagen treaty. Instead, a Copenhagen Accord was produced and states were given the option to be "associated" with the document.