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UN chief Ban Ki-moon is to lead a charge in a Commonwealth summit starting tomorrow toward a global climate deal that will be discussed in Copenhagen in two weeks’ time.

The gathering of leaders from the 53-nation body in Trinidad is the last major international meeting before the December 7-18 talks in Copenhagen.

Although to be opened by Queen Elizabeth II — in deference to the Commonwealth’s origins in what used to be the British empire — the shift towards focusing the summit on global warming was plain with the inclusion of Ban and two other non-Commonwealth leaders.