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"No plan B" for failure at Copenhagen (Yvo de Boer)

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Channel: United Nations · 2009 · News & Politics

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United Nations, New York, 28 September 2009 - United Nations negotiations on a comprehensive, effective and fair international climate change deal resumed today in Bangkok. This is the penultimate round of negotiations ahead of the Copenhagen Conference. 
Addressing delegates, Yvo de Boer, Executive Secretary of the UN Climate Change Secretariat, warned that there was "no plan B" for failure at Copenhagen. "If we do not realize plan A, the future will hold us to account for it," he added. He said that time was pressing and had almost run out. 
But de Boer also said that he believed the pace of the negotiations could and would now match the increasing pace of action seen at the highest level, during the Summit convened last week in New York by the Secretary-General. 
The two-week Bangkok Climate Change talks are being attended by more than four thousand participants, including government delegate's from 177 countries. 

News Story: http://www.un.org/apps/news/story.asp?NewsID=32305&Cr=climate+change&Cr1=

Bangkok Climate Change Talks:
http://unfccc.int/meetings/intersessional/bangkok_09/items/4967.php

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