Topic: Yvo de Boer
Outgoing UN climate chief Yvo de Boer said Thursday he was "appalled" at the international community's response to climate change, after the failure of last year's Copenhagen summit on global warming. "The one thing that has appalled me most is to witness ...
Rich and poor countries unimpressed with new climate change proposal in BonnA new round of climate talks ended Friday with rich and poor countries both sharply criticizing a new text meant to pave the way toward a deal to halt global warming. ...
BONN (Reuters) - Climate negotiators gave a standing ovation to the outgoing head of the U.N. climate change secretariat Wednesday even after he told them they would be at risk of a red card in a soccer match for wasting time. Dutchman ...
BONN, Germany (Reuters) - U.N. climate talks resumed on Monday exposing familiar rifts between rich and poor nations which delegates said would delay the start of formal negotiations. The 185-nation Bonn conference, which runs until June 11, is the biggest international climate ...
Squabbling marks first day of new UN climate talks in GermanyA new round of climate negotiations kicked off in Germany on Monday with squabbling over money and procedural questions that could threaten progress at the two-week U.N. conference. U.N. climate chief Yvo ...
OSLO/LONDON (Reuters) - The United Nations urged rich nations on Tuesday to keep a pledge to give $30 billion to poor nations by 2012 to cope with climate change, saying it was "not an impossible call" despite budget cuts in Europe. Yvo ...
UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon has named Costa Rica's Christiana Figueres to be the organization's top official on climate change, his spokesman announced Monday. UN spokesman Martin Nesirky said the 53-year-old Costa Rican, currently San Jose's climate change negotiator, would succeed Yvo ...
The highest octane political gathering on climate since the Copenhagen summit collapsed into near failure has helped restore trust but big breakthroughs are unlikely, environment ministers said Tuesday. "The ice is broken," Germany's Norbert Roettgen told journalists as the two-and-a-half day brainstorming ...
The Kyoto Protocol is under threat and political leaders should no longer skirt core questions about its destiny, the UN's top climate official told environment ministers from around the world Monday. "The question is on everybody's mind but, unfortunately, on nobody's lips: ...
OSLO (Reuters) - Governments must confront risks that the U.N.'s Kyoto Protocol for fighting climate change will collapse because of splits about a successor treaty, the U.N.'s top climate official said on Monday. Yvo de Boer also said that 194-nation climate negotiations ...
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Indonesia Environment Forum
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GERMANY DE BOER RESIGNATION
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DENMARK CLIMATE SUMMIT
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Yvo de Boer - Climate Ally
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Yvo de Boer speaking at the Bangkok talks opening.2009-09-28
