Sentences with phrase «de boer»

Yvo de Boer, former Executive Secretary of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC)

During the second Climate Leaders Summit in Poznan, the signatories of the Montreal Declaration reported on their progress and agreed a new «action statement» presented to UNFCCC Executive Secretary Yvo de Boer, in which they committed to setting targets for renewable energy and energy efficiency to accelerate low carbon policies prior to the climate change meeting in Copenhagen.

If the meeting yields progress on those three objectives «it will be a resounding success,» says Yvo de Boer, executive secretary of the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change.

According to de Boer, the fund is intended to finance climate change projects including sea walls to guard against expanding oceans, early warning systems for extreme events, improved water supplies for drought areas, training in new agricultural techniques and the conservation and restoration of mangroves to protect people from storms.

«Perhaps in as little as a year, real resources for adaptation can begin to flow to developing countries and the UNFCCC is willing to assist developing countries prepare their national adaptation strategies,» de Boer added.

«Developing countries should benefit from the adaptation fund,» said Yvo de Boer, executive secretary of the UN's Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC).

At the conclusion of meetings last month in Bonn, Germnay, UNFCC Executive Secretary Yvo de Boer said of the progress then, «At this rate we will not make it.»

Hopes that the UN conference in Copenhagen will result in an ambitious climate treaty have faded, with UN climate chief Yvo de Boer now conceding that reaching a legally binding agreement will be impossible this year.

«According to some estimates, there are already almost as many environmentally displaced people on the planet as traditional refugees,» said Yvo de Boer, executive secretary of the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC).

«As the impacts of climate change strike home, the numbers are likely to rise considerably, possibly as high as 50 million by 2010,» de Boer said on Friday on the sidelines of a meeting in Brussels of the UN's top climate panel.

Yvo de Boer, the former executive secretary of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change, called the agreement «a first critical step to unlocking the logjam in the climate - change negotiations.»

Already, this news has outraged the tens of thousands of non-government participants in the COP, who have already sent a letter of petition to Connie Hedegaard, President of COP 15, and Yvo de Boer, UNFCCC Secretariat, demanding more transparency in the process.

This issue focuses on the COP15 / MOP5 with articles from the Secretary General Ki - Moon, Lars Rasmussen, Yvo de Boer and Gordon Brown.

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Yvo de Boer, the executive secretary managing the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change, gave his latest update to the press today in Bali on negotiations over next steps under that faltering 1992 climate treaty.

Yvo de Boer, in his daily press briefing on the status of the talks, tried to defuse any sense that the United Nations or any particular bloc was trying to force specific goals on the United States or anyone else.

«Whoever is chosen as de Boer's successor will above all need to be able to build trust between major industrialized and developing economies,» Kenber said.

Your input is indispensable to frame a deal that is not only effective in terms of emission reductions, but also makes economic sense,» said Yvo de Boer, executive secretary of the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) at the Bali Global Business Day.

Yvo de Boer, who held the chair in the climate talks through Copenhagen and now runs the Global Green Growth Institute, made the point this way in an interview with Bloomberg's The Grid back in June:

But the plan is not even managed by the United Nations, it appears (Yvo de Boer told me that countries wishing to sign up need to contact Denmark, which presided over the effort to write it.)

And much of what is being pledged, despite Yvo de Boer's hope for legally - binding actions at the national level, is still much more like putty than steel, as Jack Goldsmith of Harvard Law School noted (in the context of United States law) on his Lawfare blog earlier this year.

Yvo de Boer, the head of the United Nations office administering the existing climate treaty, explained what's up in Bonn:

[UPDATE, 8/17: Yvo de Boer, who runs the office administering climate negotiations, says a week of talks in Bonn did little to reduce the thickets of brackets still clogging negotiating texts.]

COPENHAGEN — Yvo de Boer, the chief United Nations functionary managing talks on a new climate treaty, signaled the state of affairs on Tuesday by carrying an orange - and - white life ring with him into the midday news conference.

Yvo de Boer, the executive secretary of the United Nations» Framework Convention on Climate Change, concedes that much remains up in the air.

A few weeks ago, UN Climate Chief Yvo de Boer stepped down from his post as the United Nations Climate Change Secretariat.

First, from our friends at Green Inc., a post about Yvo de Boer, the executive secretary of the United Nations» Framework Convention on Climate Change, and his remarks about the current financial crisis.

At 1 pm the President and the Secretary General swept into the main plenary hall along with Minister Witoelar and the Conference's top diplomat Yvo de Boer.

The man who heads the UN office overseeing these climate conferences, Yvo de Boer, left the plenary platform in tears after a severe — many thought misguided — scolding from China about procedural issues.

Those efforts culminated here in a muted victory, at best, with a Copenhagen Accord that Yvo de Boer, the lead United Nations official managing the talks, said left things just a little advanced from where they were at this time in 2007.

Manon de Boer, Attica, 2008, 16 mm, black - and - white, 9 minutes 55 seconds.

Participating Artists: Cammisa Buerhaus, Sonia Boyce and Ain Bailey, James Coleman, Manon de Boer, Joan La Barbara, Tracie Morris, Vanessa Place, Steve Reinke, Lis Rhodes, SCRAAATCH, Masha Tupitsyn, Ultra-red, Galina Ustvolskaya, and Jackie Wang

The 77 - page soft - cover catalogue contains an introduction by Ruben de la Nuez, an artist interview by Gillian de Boer, and colour illustrations throughout.

Tonight's event brings a conversation between American artist Kari Altmann, London - based artist Anne de Boer, and Cory Scozzari, curator, artist and founding member of London's Jupiter Woods exhibition space.

The Frac Franche - Comté builds and manages a public collection of contemporary art which is the unique significant collection of its kind in the Franche - Comté Region, assembling 566 works by 290 artists including Marina Abramovic, Rosa Barba, Christian Boltanski, Robert Breer, Balthasard Burkhard, Gérard Collin - Thiébaut, Manon de Boer, Simon Faithfull, Cyprien Gaillard, Mario Garcia Torrès, Shilpa Gupta, Julius Koller, Didier Marcel, Christian Marclay, Xavier Veilhan, and Raphaël Zarka.

Murray Guy is very pleased to present A sensed perturbation, an exhibition featuring recent work by Nina Beier and Marie Lund, Manon de Boer, Matthew Buckingham, Alejandro Cesarco, Moyra Davey, Kenneth Goldsmith, and Josh Shaddock, curated by Jacob King.

Play Co Summit — a broad discussion around the topic of play organized by Ed Fornieles and Penny Rafferty, with speakers including Iain Ball, Eloïse Bonneviot, Anne de Boer, Omsk Social Club and Jon Rafman among others at The Studio — Oct 5 + 6

Witte de With has chosen to present here the work of other artists, first Manon de Boer, then Keren Cytter and next Gareth Moore.

Chasing and Repoussé Workshop with Jeff DeBoer Our first event of the 2008 - 09 Program year is a chasing and repoussé workshop, taught by the renowned Calgary - based metalsmith Jeff de Boer.

Edited by Cees de Boer, Colin Huizing.

The picturesque Dutch pavilion houses an amalgam of the artist's most recent sculptures, objects, works on paper and photography under the curatorship of Colin Huizing and Cees de Boer.

Anne de Boer & Eloise Bonneviot, Cecile B. Evans, Yuri Pattison: an evening of artists introducing their works.

A free programme of film screenings focuses on the dynamic relationship between moving image and music with works by Cory Arcangel, Sonia Boyce & Ain Bailey, Beatrice Gibson, Ken Jacobs, Mikhail Karikis & Uriel Orlow, Tony Oursler, Nam June Paik, Jayne Parker, Elizabeth Price, Manon de Boer, Mika Taanila and Tony Cokes.

Summary Title: «At the still point of the turning world...» Date: Saturday 21st February, 2015 Time: 15:30 - 21:00 (Doors open at 15:00) Venue: SHIBAURA HOUSE （ Level 5, 3 -15-4 Shibaura, Minato - ku, Tokyo ） [Access] Admission: Free (refreshments will be available for purchase) Capacity: 50 people No reservations needed Organisers: Arts Initiative Tokyo [AIT], Camden Arts Centre Supported by: Agency for Cultural Affairs Government of Japan in the fiscal 2014, British Council, SHIBAURA HOUSE Curator: Gina Buenfeld (Camden Arts Centre) Time table 15:00 Doors open 15:30 - 17:00 Introductory presentations and discussion - Intermission - 17:30 - 18:30 Act 01 Theme: Noh (screening)- Intermission - 18:45 - 20:00 Act 02 Theme: Butoh (screening, live performance) 20:00 - 21:00 Open Discussion Participating artists Live Performance: Mildred Rambaud Talk: Caroline Achaintre Jesse Wine Screening: 1: Theme / Noh (45 min) Hiraki Sawa Jeremy Millar Jefford Horrigan Ursula Mayer Manon de Boer Joachim Koester 2: Theme / Butoh (45 min) Mildred Rambaud Simon Martin Trisha Brown Babette Mangolte Fernanda Muñoz Newsome and Ina Dokmo Sriwhana Spong [Artist Profile]

In November Banner Repeater will be showing the work of Anne de Boer; after that they will be mounting «DLeb,» a group exhibition that, according to Clarke, «takes its name from the fact that a deleb (a dead celebrity) typically enjoys more data choice from beyond the grave, i.e.: they have more agency over the deployment of their data — name, image, and products that may be associated with them — than those still living.»

Maarten de Boer / Courtesy of the artist hide caption

Manon de Boer (born 1966 in Kodaicanal, India) completed her artistic education at the Akademie Van Beeldende Kunsten, Rotterdam, and at the Rijksakademie van Beeldende Kunsten in Amsterdam.

The highlights of the day include a presentation by artist Manon de Boer, a lecture by artist Mark Leckey, and novelist Tom McCarthy in conversation with Pieternel Vermoortel.

New commissions by Manon de Boer and Semiconductor launch the season, at Kestle Barton and Goonhilly Earth Station respectively.

A Dutch artist living in Brussels, Manon de Boer was educated at the Akademie Van Beeldende Kunsten, Rotterdam and at the Rijksakademie van Beeldende Kunsten in Amsterdam.