{"id":334734,"date":"2010-02-18T09:11:54","date_gmt":"2010-02-18T14:11:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/greenenergyreporter.com\/?p=6393"},"modified":"2010-02-18T09:11:54","modified_gmt":"2010-02-18T14:11:54","slug":"yvo-de-boer-quits-as-top-un-climate-official","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/334734","title":{"rendered":"Yvo De Boer Quits as Top UN Climate Official"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.greenenergyreporter.com\/wp-content\/themes\/v1\/img\/cat\/policy.png\" width=\"8\" height=\"8\" alt=\"\" title=\"Policy\" \/><\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_6396\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"width: 442px\"><a href=\"http:\/\/greenenergyreporter.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/02\/yvo_podium_600.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-6396  \" title=\"yvo_podium_600\" src=\"http:\/\/greenenergyreporter.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/02\/yvo_podium_600.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"432\" height=\"230\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Yvo de Boer: Private sector bound<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>Yvo de Boer, the executive secretary of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change, announced this morning <a href=\"http:\/\/unfccc.int\/files\/press\/news_room\/press_releases_and_advisories\/application\/pdf\/pr_20100218_ydboer.pdf\">his intention to step down<\/a> on July 1 and work for the global consultancy KPMG. The KPMG announcement is <a href=\"http:\/\/www.kpmg.com\/Global\/en\/IssuesAndInsights\/ArticlesPublications\/Press-releases\/Pages\/Press-release-United-Nations-climate-change-leader-joins-KPMG-18-Feb-2010.aspx\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>His resignation comes as confidence in the ability of countries to come up with a successor treaty to the Kyoto Protocol is at a low ebb, following the failure to reach an agreement in Copenhagen last December. U.N. Secretary General Ban Ki-Moon <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/apps\/news?pid=20601130&amp;sid=aBmvyufsKxQM\">will appoint de Boer&#8217;s successor<\/a> in consultation with the UNFCCC, Bloomberg reports.<span id=\"more-6393\"><\/span><\/p>\n<p>De Boer, 55, who has been led the UNFCCC since September 2006, said in a statement, &#8220;I have always maintained that while governments provide the necessary policy\u00a0framework, the real solutions must come from business.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>He continued:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>Copenhagen did not \u00a0provide us with a clear agreement in legal terms, but the political commitment and sense of \u00a0direction toward a low-emissions world are overwhelming. This calls for new partnerships with the business sector and I now have the chance to help make this happen.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>De Boer with be the global adviser on climate and sustainability at the KPMG.<\/p>\n<p>While this move is understandable (anybody would be driven crazy by the gong shows that are UN climate summits) de Boer&#8217;s statement undermines the rationale for a government solution to climate change. Expect the carbon markets to respond accordingly.<\/p>\n<p>Interestingly, KPMG&#8217;s press statement contains a similar quote to the UNFCCC&#8217;s statement, but modifies the last sentence to read, &#8220;&#8230;with KPMG I now have a chance to help make that happen.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>De Boer said he will stay on to help coordinate the next climate change conference in Cancun, Mexico in November.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~r\/GreenEnergyReporter\/~4\/8erN7xOmlvU\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\"\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yvo de Boer: Private sector bound Yvo de Boer, the executive secretary of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change, announced this morning his intention to step down on July 1 and work for the global consultancy KPMG. The KPMG announcement is here. His resignation comes as confidence in the ability of countries to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":854,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-334734","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/334734","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/854"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=334734"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/334734\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=334734"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=334734"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=334734"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}