UNFCCC Executive Secretary Yvo de Boer addressing the press on the final day of the Bangkok Climate Change Talks
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In his statement to the press at the end of the week-long Climate Change Talks in Bangkok, Yvo de Boer, Executive Secretary of the UNFCCC, announced that a timetable had been agreed for the negotiating process leading up to a long-term international climate change agreeement to be concluded in Copenhagen in two years time. “The train to Copenhagen has left the station,” he said.

Mr. de Boer said that the two-year work programme broke up the huge task of reaching this agreement into “bite-sized, manageable chunks of work.”

He explained that Parties would consider the themes adaptation, mitigation, techonology , finance and a shared vision for long-term cooperative action in conjunction with each other at every session to make progress, and expressed his satisfaction that the critical issues were being discussed at an early stage.

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UNFCCC Executive Secretary Yvo de Boer addressing the press on the first day of the Bangkok Climate Change Talks
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At the opening press conference in Bangkok, UNFCCC Executive Secretary, Yvo de Boer, explained the work of the Ad hoc Working Group on Long-Term Cooperative Action under the Convention, and the Working Group on further Commitments for Annex I Parties under the Kyoto Protocol:

“What both these processes are primarily about is setting goals going into the future."

He said that this involved "defining the level of ambition that industrialized countries can achieve by taking on emission reduction commitments,"as well as "examining to what extent developing countries can take real, measurable and verifiable action to combat climate change, providing that real, measurable and verifiable money is on the table." It also meant focusing on what adaptation measures need to be taken in the future, he said.

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