Posts Tagged ‘de boer’

UN climate chief spurs talks on new global warming pact

By admin • Jun 12th, 2008 • Category: Conferences & Events, Environmental Projects, Featured, Global Warming

UN climate chief Yvo de Boer called on industrialised countries on Thursday to start showing some of their cards in a slow-paced poker game whose prize is a new pact to tackle global warming.De Boer, executive secretary of the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC), said talks unfolding among senior officials here marked “the […]


U.N. climate change chief confident of 2009 deal

By admin • Jun 4th, 2008 • Category: Conferences & Events, Environmental Projects, Featured, Global Warming, Important Today

A new global deal on climate change should be achieved at a meeting in Copenhagen next year despite disagreement at talks this week, the head of the U.N climate change secretariat said on Tuesday.”I really am confident that at the end of the day, the deal will be struck,” Yvo de Boer said in a […]


EU asked to financially help developing countries in climate change

By admin • Mar 4th, 2008 • Category: Conferences & Events, Featured

The United Nations’ top climate change official, Yvo de Boer, on Monday asked the European Union (EU) to provide financial help to major developing economies in order to reach a global deal on climate change. De Boer, executive secretary of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change, addressed an EU environment […]