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Yvo de Boer officially steps down today from his post as Executive Secretary of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC), making way for incoming UNFCCC chief Christiana Figueres.
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The “Road to Cancun” moves haltingly forward with the conclusion last Friday of the United Nations climate talks in Bonn.
According to a UN press release, the two-week negotiating session made “important progress towards concluding what was left incomplete at the UN Climate Change Conference in Copenhagen in 2009”.
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Despite the flourishing rhetoric at the outset of the COP15 climate conference in Copenhagen last December, by the time the conference got underway it was already apparent that the degree of tension and mistrust between the developed and developing world would likely hobble efforts to negotiate a “fair and binding” agreement to deal with climate change at an international level.
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Preparation for the COP16 climate conference later this year in Cancùn started today with a two-week UNFCCC negotiating session in Bonn, Germany. Following are press conference videos on the first day of the talks:
UNFCCC Executive Secretary Yvo de Boer
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Current UNFCCC Executive Secretary Yvo de Boer addressed the press this morning (see video below) in advance of the first UN climate negotiations next week in Bonn. Soon to be succeeded by incoming Executive Secretary designate Christiana Figueres, de Boer may harbor some relief in not charged with shepherding the next major climate conference, COP16, later this year in Cancún, Mexico.
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The first meeting of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) since the chaotic conclusion of the COP15 climate conference late last year in Copenhagen concluded yesterday amid a general theme of “picking up the pieces” from the “shattered” process of international climate negotiations.
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The following is a press release from the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change:
(Bonn, 18 February 2010) – Mr. Yvo de Boer has announced today that he will resign his position as Executive Secretary of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change as of 1 July 2010. Mr. de Boer will be joining the consultancy group KPMG as Global Adviser on Climate and Sustainability, as well as working with a number of universities.
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In his first official press conference since the conclusion of the COP15 climate conference in Copenhagen, UNFCCC Executive Secretary Yvo de Boer acknowledged that the much-anticipated conference did not deliver all it could have, it did “set the stage” in three key elements:
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A roundup of what I saw and heard today at the COP15 climate conference in Copenhagen:
Week one of the COP15 climate change conference draws to a close here in Copenhagen, and negotiation now move into their next, crucial face tomorrow as ministers arrive tomorrow to start informal talks with Danish Minister for the UN Climate Conference, Connie Hedegaard. The starting point for those informal talks will be a set of texts tabled by the chairs of each of the working groups in the negotiating process – the AWG-LCA and AWG-KP.
Continue Reading COP15: Friday Roundup – The Heavy Lifting Begins
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