Turning Points: Yvo de Boer, special global advisor for climate change and sustainability at KPMG
Turning Points: Yvo de Boer
The ambitious project of tackling climate change via an international framework is at a pivotal point. With the Kyoto Protocol's Phase III set to start in 2013 and full details on the operational framework still to be clarified, it seems disappointing that a legally binding global agreement could not be reached at the 16th session of the Conference of the Parties (COP16) to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) in Cancun in December.
Yvo de Boer, former executive
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