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 India , S. Africa, Indonesia seek top UN climate job09-03-2010INDIA, South Africa and Indonesia are vying to win the U.N.'s top climate change job, a key post after the U.N.'s Copenhagen summit
which set binding targets.
Analysts expect a developing nation candidate will succeed Yvo de
Boer, a Dutch citizen who said last month he would step down as head
of the U.N. Climate Change Secretariat on July 1 after four years.
South Africa on Monday (8) nominated Tourism Minister Marthinus van
Schalkwyk, 50, and a former environment minister.
India nominated Vijay Sharma, a senior environmental official, to
succeed de Boer.
Indonesia has not yet settled on a nominee. Agus Purnomo, Indonesia's
lead negotiator in Copenhagen, said there were rumours he might be
nominated.
December's Copenhagen summit fell short of a legally binding treaty,
largely because of disagreements between developed and developing
nations about sharing the burden of emissions curbs.
The choice is up to U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon, who says
stronger action by all is needed to avert more heatwaves, droughts,
floods and rising sea levels.
Delegates from 194 nations will meet in Bonn, Germany, next month to
try to prepare the next major talks, in Mexico this year.
South Africa's climate policies are among the most ambitious of
developing nations - envisaging a peak in emissions by 2020-25.
India has promised to cut the amount of carbon emitted per unit of
economic output by 20-25 percent by 2020. And Indonesia aims to cut
emissions by at least 26 percent by 2020 below a "business as usual"
rise.
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