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Costa Rican named UN climate chief (succeeds Yvo de Boer at UNFCCC)
AFP on Yahoo ^ | 5/17/10 | AFP

Posted on 05/17/2010 10:41:52 AM PDT by NormsRevenge

UNITED NATIONS (AFP) – UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon has named Costa Rica's Christiana Figueres to be the organization's top official on climate change, his spokesman announced Monday.

UN spokesman Martin Nesirky said the 53-year-old Costa Rican, currently San Jose's climate change negotiator, would succeed Yvo de Boer of the Netherlands as the executive secretary of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCC).

De Boer tendered his resignation after last year's failed Copenhagen climate change talks.

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TOPICS: Business/Economy; Culture/Society; Foreign Affairs; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: climate; costarica; figueres; unfccc; unitednations
Click pic for more info on Figueres..

1 posted on 05/17/2010 10:41:52 AM PDT by NormsRevenge
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She’s a climate regime kind of gal..


2 posted on 05/17/2010 10:43:32 AM PDT by NormsRevenge (Semper Fi ... Godspeed .. Monthly Donor Onboard .. Chuck DeVore - CA Senator. Believe.)
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To: NormsRevenge

My feet got wet the other day. A hundred billion at least...


3 posted on 05/17/2010 10:45:43 AM PDT by allmost
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To: NormsRevenge; Dr. Bogus Pachysandra; Nipfan; Amagi; Fiddlstix; Tunehead54; Clive; FrPR; ...
 




Beam me to Planet Gore !

4 posted on 05/17/2010 10:46:54 AM PDT by steelyourfaith (America should take a mulligan on the 2008 presidential election.)
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To: NormsRevenge

Maurice Strong, President of the Council of the University for Peace in Costa Rica since 1999
http://www.greatdreams.com/climate/carbon-trading-conspiracy.htm


5 posted on 05/17/2010 11:16:07 AM PDT by Haddit
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