According to reports, United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon is looking forward to invite nearly 40 world leaders together with President Barack Obama and German Chancellor Angela Merkel to a meeting next month.

Ban is looking forward to the meeting as a result of slow pace of global climate discussions. On September 27, the meeting will be held in New York, a day before the UN general assembly, according to three people familiar with the matter. According to the sources, French President Francois Hollande, Brazilian President Dilma Rousseff, India's Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Chinese leaders will also be invited.

As per reports, over 190 nations are making efforts in order to reach an agreement in Paris for limiting greenhouse-gas emissions and avert the bad effects of global warming. As per Obama, Modi and other world leaders, the goal, negotiations are not progressing at required pace and Ban has spoken repeatedly in relation to the slow pace of the discussions. There is a need of discussion on the legal structure of the deal and providing financial support to poorer nations and other matters.

According to Alexis Lamek, deputy permanent representative at the French mission to the UN, “The idea of the heads-of-state working meeting on climate change at the end of September is to give a political push to the negotiations in order to succeed in Paris”. Lamek added that leaders will share their opinions on the ambition and the resources to achieve that target.