By the way: Doesn't Yvo de Boer, right this very minute, have a glaring conflict of interest?

UN Climate Process ‘Needs a Good Spanking,’ Yvo de Boer Says - BusinessWeek

March 3 (Bloomberg) -- The process for reaching a global climate agreement “needs a good spanking,” United Nations Climate Chief Yvo de Boer said today.

“More meetings does not mean success,” de Boer, who steps down from his UN post on July 1, said today at the Carbon Market Insights conference in Amsterdam. “We need to get down to business.”

The Copenhagen summit in December 2009 was a failure even though it was preceded by many meetings, de Boer said. While about 150 nations agreed to submit plans or targets to reduce greenhouse gas emissions, the meeting failed to produce a global treaty to replace the Kyoto Protocol, which lapses in 2012.

“Going back from Copenhagen, I was extremely disappointed,” de Boer said. “My first feeling was it had been an absolute disaster.”

Flashback: Top U.N. Climate Diplomat Announces Resignation - NYTimes.com

"Rightly or wrongly, Yvo is associated in many minds with the perceived failure of Copenhagen and no longer has the confidence of parties," said Elliot Diringer, vice president for international strategies at the Pew Center on Global Climate Change. "He probably shares in the blame but is hardly alone. There's plenty to go around."

Diringer added, "Yvo's biggest mistake was helping to set wildly unrealistic expectations for Copenhagen, so that even a modest success would invariably be seen as a failure. He later tried to temper those expectations, but it was too late."

Rich need to be clearer on climate cash: de Boer - Point Carbon - Climate Insights

Rich nations must outline firm plans on where finance to tackle climate change will come from. Only then will poor countries be willing to agree to structure carbon markets beyond 2012, outgoing UN climate chief Yvo de Boer told the Carbon Market Insights conference in Amsterdam today. “There is huge suspicion among developing countries that rich nations will try to escape using public finance responsibility through the carbon market,” he said.

The Big Four Blog: KPMG Hires Yvo De Boer High Profile UN Climate Change Leader

He says aptly, “Although it is the role of governments to provide the necessary policy frameworks, I have always maintained that business will deliver the necessary innovation and solutions, providing the right conditions are created. With KPMG, I now have a chance to help make that happen.”