Watch: George Monbiot meets Yvo de Boer

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George Monbiot talks with Yvo de Boer, the current Executive Secretary of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change, in the first of a series of interviews from the Guardian. In the video you can, for example, see Yvo de Boer defend George Bush and expensive Clean Development Mechanism (CDM) projects.

In the first of a remarkable series of video interviews, Britain’s leading green commentator, George Monbiot, charges the UN’s leading climate change official with lacking ambition for a global emissions deal, and takes him to task over expensive carbon offset schemes and his support for the US president, George Bush. In the coming weeks, Monbiot takes on the bosses of Shell and the International Energy Agency and more.

Watch George Monbiot meets Yvo de Boer on the Guardian.

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[Simon]

This is a really good interview with Yvo de Boer. Monbiot ask the questions that other journalists are too afraid/stupid to ask.