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The UN chief's agenda for today is the world's changing climate and its effect on human lives.
Today in New York Ban Ki Moon meets world leaders to discuss possible agreements that can be brokered at a Climate Change Conference in Copenhagen this December.
Recently, countries have been flooded by intense rains across West Africa and drought in Kenya and Uganda in the East.
Ugandan farmer Constance Okollet's community has been so affected that she's become an activist.
She's in New York to lobby the world leaders.
Akwasi Sarpong asked if her farming town, Tororo, was adversely affected by bad weather.
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