Speaker Details

Yvo De Boer
Special Global Adviser, Climate Change and Sustainability, KPMG

 Yvo de Boer is KPMG’s Special Global Advisor, Climate Change and Sustainability.  In this role he is responsible for thought leadership on strategy development, driving the development of KPMG’s Sustainability Service and acting as KPMG’s global ambassador.

Prior to joining KPMG, Mr de Boer was Executive Secretary of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCC), the body responsible for a multi-lateral response to the climate change challenge.

Before joining the UNFCCC, Mr de Boer served as Deputy Director-General for Environmental Protection and Director for International Affairs in the Dutch Ministry of Housing, Spatial Planning and Environment, where he was responsible for environmental policy development through the European Union and in the context of broader international cooperation. Earlier he worked in same Ministry, as Head of the Climate Change Department and in the fields of housing and public information.  Early in his career, Mr de Boer worked for the United Nations Centre for Human Settlements (UN-HABITAT).

Mr de Boer has been involved in climate change policies since 1994.  He has helped to prepare the position of the European Union in the lead-up to the negotiations on the Kyoto Protocol, assisted in the design of the internal burden sharing of the European Union and has since led delegations to the UNFCCC negotiations.

He has actively sought broad stakeholder involvement on the issue of climate change.  To that end, he launched an international dialogue on the clean development mechanism and has partnered international discussions with the World Business Council on Sustainable Development, aimed at increasing private sector involvement. He also organized several international conferences on the role of markets in climate policy and on strategies for sustainable growth.

Mr de Boer has served as Vice-President of the Conference of Parties to UNFCCC and as Vice-Chair of the Commission on Sustainable Development.  He was a member of the China Council for International Cooperation on Environment and Development, the Bureau of the Environment Policy Committee of the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development, the Advisory Group of the Community Development Carbon Fund of the World Bank.

Alongside his work for KPMG he is Professorial Fellow at the University of Maastricht. He is a Member of the Board of the Centre for Clean Air Policy, a Council Member of the World Business Council on Sustainable Development (and co-chair of the taskforce on Climate and Energy), a member of the Green Growth Leaders, a member of the Capital Markets Climate Initiative steering group (established by UK Climate Minister Greg Barker), a Board Member of the Carbon Markets International Association, a member of the International Advisory Group of the Rotterdam Climate Initiative, as well as a Board member of the Carbon Markets International Association. 

Mr de Boer received a knighthood from her Majesty the Queen of the Netherlands in 2009 and the Dutch Climate Award in 2010.

Mr de Boer is a certified mediator.

 

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