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Telepress Briefing: The Year Ahead for International Global Warming Talks

26 March 2009

Contact:
Brandon MacGillis, Pew, (202) 887-8800
Eben Burnham-Snyder, Chairman Ed Markey, (202) 225-4012
Carrie Assheuer, UNFCCC, (+49-228) 815-1005

WASHINGTON – On Thursday, March 26 at 10:30 A.M. EST, the Pew Environment Group hosted a global warming telepress briefing with Rep. Edward J. Markey (D-Mass.), who chairs key energy and climate panels and Yvo de Boer, Executive Secretary of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change. This briefing occured just before the March 29-April 8 Bonn climate meeting where the world takes the first step on the road to Copenhagen to reach a new international agreement to replace the Kyoto Protocol. The speakers discussed the upcoming climate meeting, the state of play in the international process and what role the United States will play in drafting the new climate treaty.

Attendees:

• Rep. Edward J. Markey (D-Mass.), Chairman of Select Committee on Energy Independence and Global Warming and Energy and Environment Subcommittee
• Yvo de Boer, Executive Secretary of the United Nations Frame Work Convention on Climate Change
• Kevin Curtis, Pew Environment Group, Moderator

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