He urged signatories of last December’s watered-down COP15 Copenhagen Accord to work on an “operational architecture” for worldwide greenhouse gas emission cuts at the upcoming COP16 in Cancún, Mexico.
De Boer, the executive secretary of the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change, announced his resignation after the collapse of negotiations in Copenhagen.
He is expected to be replaced by Costa Rican bureaucrat Christiana Figueres.
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