Yvo de Boer (Executive Secretary U.N. Framework Convention on Climate Change, UNFCCC) b. 1954

Yvo de Boer Demographics:

• Name - Yvo de Boer
• Birth - June 12, 1954 (Vienna)
• Age - 55 years (2009)
• Nationality - Dutch
• Marital - Married with 3 children.
• Father - Dutch diplomat.
• Occupation - Beaurocrat; Executive secretary of the U.N. Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC).

Yvo de Boer Facts:

• He travelled the world extensively as the son of a diplomat.
• Went to boarding school in the United Kingdom.
• Obtained a technical degree in social work in the Netherlands.
• He worked for the United Nations Human Settlements Programme (UN-HABITAT) earlier in his career.

Yvo de Boer UNFCCC Facts:

• Led the international climate change negotiations over 4 years.
• The high point of his tenure was the agreement in Bali (end of 2007) under which nations agreed to a deadline in December 2009 to produce a worldwide treaty on global warming.
• Is resigning his post as of July 1 2010.
• He expressed disappointment that the December (2009) climate change conference in Copenhagen had failed to produce an enforceable agreement to reduce greenhouse gas emissions.
• Mr de Boer will join the consulting group KPMG as global advisor on climate & sustainability in July 2010.
  
• He will also work in academia following leaving the U.N. Framework Convention on Climate Change.

Image of Yvo de Boer by Climate Change Media Partnership (cc)

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