Wangari Maathai: World-renowned Kenyan environmentalist and Nobel Peace laureate

New York — World-renowned Kenyan environmentalist and Nobel Peace laureate Wangari Maathai has appealed to the world's leaders to agree on an "ambitious" and "binding" deal at the United Nations Climate Change Conference in Copenhagen in December. Maathai was speaking at the historic one-day UN summit on climate change held in New York. She was chosen to speak for international civil society and