United Nations - Obama Presidency Oral History Back United Nations Index / Organizations Transcripts Lisa Jackson ...you boarded a plane to travel to the United Nations Climate Change Conference, or th... ...There's all these nations. There's the UN aspect of it, where it's almost like ... Carol Browner ...change. So we go to Copenhagen [ United Nations Climate Change Conference]—I go wit... ...it's really the setup; then to Paris [ United Nations Climate Change Conference,]. You had t... Steven Chu ...these—in Copenhagen [Denmark], in the UN meeting there [United Nations Climat... ...[Denmark], in the UN meeting there [ United Nations Climate Change Conference, December] ... Frances Beinecke ...Copenhagen, which was, of course, the United Nations [UN] Climate Change Conference, whic... ...was, of course, the United Nations [ UN ] Climate Change Conference, which too... ...two things going on. There's within the UN framework, who's allowed in and wher... ...demanding—and it was right before the UN Climate Summit—then, I guess, Ba... ...So, the voices were focused on the UN , “Step up!” And it was jus... Bill McKibben ...the Copenhagen climate conference [ United Nations Climate Change Conference] would be ... ...Quality. Then he was the head of the UN Development Programme. And then he wa... ...This was in the lead-up to Paris [ United Nations Climate Change Conference]. The UN ha... ...Nations Climate Change Conference]. The UN had become very concerned that it wa... ...it was, which was September, during the UN climate session, the year befor... ...Obama used that energy. He said at the UN a couple of weeks later, “When peopl... Show more... Todd Stern ...position on x, y, or z to the UNFCCC [ United Nations Framework Convention on Climat... ...talked elliptically about this in his UN speech in September and then a... ...get together again until during the UN General Assembly meetings in September... ...they were supposed to be—we were in the UN building, and we were meeting in one o... ...that are all over the place in the UN for exactly this reason. The discussio... ...become the Brazilian ambassador to the United Nations , then the Brazilian foreign minister... ...and I at the table, a big, gigantic UN room. It was literally the first time ... Show more... Nancy Sutley ...ground. I wanted to ask you about the United Nations Climate Change Conference i... ...and that's just not the way those UN things work. The negotiations dragge... ...negotiators for the US in the UNFCCC [ UN Framework Convention on Climate Change... ...in Washington alone or through the UN alone; that it really has to b... Heather Zichal ...were part of the US delegation to the United Nations Climate Change Conference in Copenhage... Jeh Johnson ...host nation consent, or pursuant to a UN Security Council resolution, or—an... ...coming to our country as part of the UN General Assembly, and then he was als... Load more Transcripts Related Topics go to the Women and Girls Women and Girls go to the Republican Opposition Republican Opposition go to the Chicago Chicago go to the Counterterrorism Counterterrorism go to the Criminal Justice Criminal Justice