Yvo de Boer is the Executive Secretary of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change and is the UN official responsible for facilitating talks on the launch of a comprehensive package on a future climate change agreement at Bali in December 2007. A veteran diplomat involved in the Kyoto negotiations, de Boer offers his views on the G8 summit in Heiligendamm and the participation of the U.S., India and China in a future climate regime.
