David Victor Quoted in The Christian Science Monitor
UN climate chief resigns
02/19/2010
Moises Velasquez-Manoff,
The Christian Science Monitor
Many observers say that De Boer is a hard-working, dedicated, and competent bureaucrat thrust into a vexing situation.
“He’s done a very good job in an almost impossible situation,” says David Victor, a professor at the University of California San Diego’s School of International Relations. “But the head is only as strong as the member governments will let him be. And the member governments so far don't really have a very real game plan.”
Some 120 world leaders attended the UNFCCC Copenhagen meeting in December, where the lack of concrete progress frustrated many.
Toward the end of the until-then gridlocked meeting, the largest greenhouse gas emitters agreed on emissions reduction goals, with US President Barack Obama leading the way. But those agreements were in no way binding.
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David Victor is director of the Laboratory on International Law and Regulation, based at the School of International Relations and Pacific Studies.
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