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Yvo de Boer to Leave U.N. Climate Chief Post
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The future of the climate change talks is now facing an uncertain direction as an important U.N. officer decided to leave his post as head of climate change negotiations.
Dutch official Yvo de Boer announced last February 18, 2010 that he will resign from his post effective July 1 this year. His decision to resign came two months after the latest climate change summit held in Copenhagen at the end of 2009, which ended in disappointment. The Copenhagen breakdown resulted from the failure of the involved nations and their respective leaders to create a legally binding international treaty.
Disheartened
Yvo de Boer’s decision to resign is not directly connected to the tumultuous Copenhagen talks, but he openly acknowledged his deep disappointment and frustration over the chaos that came with the climate change negotiations.
He said, “After Copenhagen, I was very depressed. I was very depressed for a few weeks.”
De Boer got exhausted from the four years of climate change negotiation efforts he has been leading and coordinating with different nations. He was caught in the middle of the unrelenting squabbling between the rich and poor countries, on deciding the best actions to reduce greenhouse emissions. Instead of arriving at a consensus and formulating a binding treaty to fight global warming, the failed Copenhagen talks featured some leaders of nations pushing for their own interests by brokering different unenforceable pledges to cut emissions.
Copenhagen Accord
De Boer ended up frustrated that the recent participants of the last climate change summit refused to formally ratify the “Copenhagen Accord” that emerged from the talks, agreeing only to give it consideration in the future. A worldwide treaty was supposed to be produced by the end of 2009 in compliance with the agreement between different nations during the climate change negotiations in Bali last December 2007.
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