UN Climate Chief celebrates Obama victory

The Herald reports that Yvo do Boer, Executive Secretary of the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change, is very encouraged by Barack Obama’s stance on global warming (shurely “climate change”? Ed).

“I am very encouraged by the stated commitment of Senator Obama to the issue of climate change, and I really hope that he or his representatives can come to the climate change conference in Poznan (in western Poland) and speak to his vision of the way forward,” he said.

Obama has set his sights on crippling the US economy with emissions reductions much as Rudd’s ETS will in Australia, by setting a targets of 80% by 2050. Let’s see how far that gets.

Read it here.