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  • Yvo de Boer, executive secretary of the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change
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  • UNFCCC Executive Secretary Yvo de Boer speaks during the opening session of the Bangkok Climate Change Talks
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  • "There is no plan B," Yvo de Boer said in his opening speech
    "There is no plan B," Yvo de Boer said in his opening speech
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  • De Boer cautioned that the thawing of positions in Bangkok was only a small part of what was needed
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  • Yvo De Boer will head the meeting of negotiators from 192 countries in the Danish capital in December
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  • Head of the U.N. Climate Change Secretariat Yvo de Boer poses next to Ben Margolis during the performance of "tck tck tck" by Global Campaign for Climate Action at the Barcelona Climate Change Talks
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  • Head of the U.N. Climate Change Secretariat Yvo de Boer poses next to Ben Margolis during a performance 'tck tck tck' of Global Campaign for Climate Action at the Barcelona Climate Change Talks
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  • Yvo de Boer recalled that it took eight years to negotiate, sign and ratify Kyoto
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  • Yvo de Boer, head of the U.N. Climate Change Secretariat, addresses a news conference at the end of a meeting with EU environment ministers in Brussels
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Yvo de Boer
Yvo de Boer's Biography

Yvo de Boer (born 1954, Vienna) is the current Executive Secretary of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change. Prior to joining the UNFCCC, he was Director for International Affairs of the Ministry of Housing, Spatial Planning and Environment of the Netherlands. He was in charge of international policy, both in the context of the European Union, as well as involving broader international cooperation.

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  • News Source: The Economist | 9 days ago
    Peeking at the reading material of my seatmates, I notice that most of us seem to be heading for the UN climate-change talks in Barcelona —the last before a larger gathering in Copenhagen this December. For the last two years, most of the world’s
  • News Source: The Economist | 16 days ago
    Peeking at the reading material of my seatmates, I notice that most of us seem to be heading for the UN climate-change talks in Barcelona —the last before a larger gathering in Copenhagen this December. For the last two years, most of the world’s
  • News Source: The Guardian | 25 days ago
    Not so Yvo de Boer , the diplomat in charge of the climate change talks which will reach their climax at Copenhagen next month. After almost a fortnight at the Bali negotiations in December 2007, as talks hit their umpteenth buffer, de Boer had to be

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  • Blog Source: www.350resources.org.uk | 7 days ago
    The EU had said it, UN climate convention chief Yvo de Boer had said it: without something firm on the table from China and US, together responsible for about.
  • Blog Source: www.bbc.co.uk | 7 days ago
    The EU had said it, UN climate convention chief Yvo de Boer had said it: without something firm on the table from China and US, together responsible for about 40% of the world's greenhouse gas emissions, it would be very difficult to ...
  • Blog Source: www.greenhoof.com | 7 days ago
    Yvo de Boer, the executive secretary of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change, took note today of the urgency of making those commitments as well. “The US commitment to specific, mid-term emission cut targets and ...

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