Multiple choice

Who among the following was appointed as the Executive Secretary of the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCC)?

  1. Karen Christiana Olsen

  2. Alberto Cafias

  3. Yvo de Boer

  4. Escalante

  5. Joaquin Chaverri Sievert
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Karen Christiana Figueres Olsen of Costa Rice was appointed Executive Secretary of the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) on 17 May 2010, succeeding Yvo de Boer. The UNFCCC is an international environmental treaty produced at the United Nations Conference on Environment and Development (UNCED), also known as the Earth Summit, held in Rio de Janeiro from 3 to 14 June 1992. The objective of the treaty is to stabilize greenhouse gas concentrations in the atmosphere at a level that would prevent dangerous interference with the climate system.

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