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An interview with Bloomberg New Energy Finance (BNEF) founder Michael Liebreich is presented wherein he talks about a more dramatic decline in oil and gas investments in 2015, the competitive position of alternative fuel technologies, and high energy costs as the most important long-term driver for clean energy technologies.

The article focuses on the United Nations (UN) Convention on Climate Change scheduled to take place in November of 2011 in Cancun, Mexico. Information is provided on how the international climate change agreement the Kyoto Protocol will expire in 2012 and how Christiana Figueres, head of the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change, hopes for an international commitment to clean energy development.

The article reports on the alternatives available for climate change experts who will gather in Cancun, Mexico in the end of November 2010 to replace the Kyoto Protocol. Christiana Figueres, successor of Yvo de Boer, the head of the U.N. Framework Convention on Climate Change, says that after Cancun she will focus on a number of initiatives, including a program that provides poorer countries with incentives to curb deforestation and the transfer of low-carbon technology to the developing world.

The article discusses international trade in clean energy technologies and criticisms about fairness associated with low prices available in China. Senator Charles E. Schumer of the U.S. is noted for comments regarding benefits that have accrued to non-U.S. renewable energy companies from the 2009 economic stimulus package.