UN Climate Process ‘Needs a Good Spanking,’ Yvo de Boer Says

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UN Climate Process ‘Needs a Good Spanking,’ Yvo de Boer Says
March 03, 2010, 4:54 AM EST

By Catherine Airlie

March 3 (Bloomberg) -- The process for reaching a global climate agreement
“needs a good spanking,” United Nations Climate Chief Yvo de Boer said
today.

“More meetings does not mean success,” de Boer, who steps down from his UN
post on July 1, said today at the Carbon Market Insights conference in
Amsterdam. “We need to get down to business.”

The Copenhagen summit in December 2009 was a failure even though it was
preceded by many meetings, de Boer said. While about 150 nations agreed to
submit plans or targets to reduce greenhouse gas emissions, the meeting
failed to produce a global treaty to replace the Kyoto Protocol, which
lapses in 2012.

“Going back from Copenhagen, I was extremely disappointed,” de Boer said.
“My first feeling was it had been an absolute disaster.”
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Henk Elegeert

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