"Frustration, and Maybe Progress, as Paris Climate Talks Near"

"With a global climate conference only months away, preparatory talks have been moving at a 'snail's pace.' But talks this week may have yielded progress."

"With an international summit on climate change in Paris only a few months away, the talks-before-the-talks are gaining increasing importance as negotiators struggle to refine language and craft a coherent agreement that the world’s nations can all agree to sign at the December conference.

The Paris meeting runs from Nov. 30 to Dec. 11, and negotiators just finished a week of talks in Bonn, Germany. The two lead negotiators in Bonn were given the green light to present a streamlined version of the 83-page draft agreement in October.

There is only one more negotiation session before the Paris conference: a four-day meeting, also in Bonn, starting on Oct. 19."

Henry Gass reports for the Christian Science Monitor September 4, 2015.

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