Yvo de Boer

Overview

Yvo de Boer is the Executive Secretary of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change and is the UN official responsible for facilitating talks on the launch of a comprehensive package on a future climate change agreement at Bali in December 2007. A veteran diplomat involved in the Kyoto negotiations, de Boer offers his views on the G8 summit in Heiligendamm and the participation of the U.S., India and China in a future climate regime.