Yvo de Boer

Yvo de Boer (2007)

Yvo de Boer (born June 12, 1954 in Vienna ) is a Dutch politician and was Secretary General of the Secretariat of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) from September 2006 to June 2010 .

biography

Born in Vienna in 1954 as the son of a Dutch diplomat, he often changed his place of residence and got to know many countries and cultures. He attended boarding school in the UK and later moved to a Dutch college where he earned a degree in social work .

As a department head in the Dutch Ministry of Housing, Spatial Planning and the Environment, he was responsible for international affairs, including cooperation with the EU. He also acted as deputy general director for environmental protection and as head of the department for climate change and was responsible for housing and public relations. De Boer also worked for the United Nations Human Settlements Program (UN-HABITAT).

He had been entrusted with global climate change since 1994 and, in his position, played a decisive role in the development of the EU's positions in the negotiations on the Kyoto Protocol . He initiated an international dialogue on the mechanism for environmentally compatible development and was also involved in international discussions with the World Business Council on Sustainable Development , an association of companies with the aim of promoting sustainable development .

In September 2006 he was appointed to succeed Joke Waller-Hunter, who died in October 2005, as Secretary General of the Secretariat of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) in Bonn . On February 18, 2010, he resigned from this office with effect from July 1 of that year. The successor was the Costa Rican Christiana Figueres .

After his resignation as General Secretary, de Boer worked as a consultant for the business consultancy KPMG between July 2010 and May 2014 . Since May 2014 he has been General Director for the Global Green Growth Institute.

Web links

• Biography of Yvo de Boer on the website of the UNFCCC
• Profile Yvo de Boers on the site of his current employer

Remarks

1. ↑ UN climate chief de Boer resigns. tagesschau.de, February 18, 2010, archived from the original on February 21, 2010 ; accessed on May 12, 2014 . 
2. ↑ ^{a b} Linkedin profile Yvo de Boer. linkedin.com, accessed August 31, 2014 . 
3. ↑ Yvo de Boer. (No longer available online.) Gggi.org, archived from the original on September 27, 2014 ; accessed on August 31, 2014 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.