The United Nations has appointed Yvo de Boer as new head of its Climate Change Secretariat, ahead of the annual November UN Climate Change Conference to be held this year in Nairobi.
The conference of 189 countries will decide how to distribute a climate change adaptation fund, possibly exceeding 400 million US dollar, and host talks on global action to combat climate change.
The 52 year old Dutch national was a prominent figure at a make-or-break conference in 2000 in the Hague, which fine-tuned the Kyoto Protocol and inserted carbon trading as a means of achieving emissions cuts, said UN climate change spokesman John Hay.
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