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Yvo de Boer: Bring private sector into UN climate talks

Yvo de Boer, the former UN climate chief, has called for the private sector to be enabled to participate in international negotiations and contribute around $100 billion per year to a Green Climate Fund, through a new consultative mechanism.

MEP: EU climate vow separate from Copenhagen deal

"Our engagement for climate protection should be independent from Copenhagen," the newly-elected chair of the European Parliament's environment committee, German Social Democrat MEP Jo Leinen, told EURACTIV in an interview, stressing that "if Copenhagen is a success, all the better; if not, we have to stick to our job".

IPCC chief urges US to match EU climate goals

The US must not do less than the EU to cut greenhouse gas emissions, said in an exclusive interview with EURACTIV Rajendra Pachauri, chair of the UN's Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, which received the Nobel peace prize in 2007 together with former US vice-president Al Gore.