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Current Events => Breaking News => Topic started by: bijou on February 18, 2010, 07:40:43 AM

Title: Yvo de Boer resigns as top UN climate official
Post by: bijou on February 18, 2010, 07:40:43 AM

Yvo de Boer, the UN's top climate change official, says he will resign after nearly four years in the post.

His departure takes effect from 1 July, five months before 193 countries are due to reconvene in Mexico for another attempt at a global deal on climate. ...

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/8521821.stm

Although he'll be replaced, it is clear he wouldn't have resigned if he'd been a stunning success.

Title: Re: Yvo de Boer resigns as top UN climate official
Post by: diesel driver on February 18, 2010, 04:24:52 PM

Good riddance, and don't let the door hit him in the ass on the way out....

Title: Re: Yvo de Boer resigns as top UN climate official
Post by: Randy on February 19, 2010, 12:25:41 PM

Quote from: bijou on February 18, 2010, 07:40:43 AM

Although he'll be replaced, it is clear he wouldn't have resigned if he'd been a stunning success.

Try as he may he just couldn't get the globe to warm.  :-)