"Hopes are fading that climate talks in Qatar late this year will make even modest progress towards getting a new globally binding climate deal signed by 2015, as preliminary negotiations in Germany this week have left much work to be done."
"The fear is that if work plans and agendas are not set by the end of this year at the latest it could have a knock-on effect, holding up the entire effort to avert potentially devastating global warming.
United Nations climate talks in South Africa last year agreed a package of measures that would extend the 1997 Kyoto Protocol, a global pact enforcing carbon cuts, and decide a new, legally binding accord by 2015, coming into force by 2020.
In the first negotiating session since that agreement, delegates from over 180 countries were nearing the end of two-week long session in Bonn, but progress has been hampered by procedural wrangling."
Nina Chestney reports for Reuters May 25, 2012.
SEE ALSO:
"Ban Ki-Moon Calls Rio Earth Summit Negotiations 'Painfully Slow'" (Guardian)
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"Global CO2 Emissions Hit Record In 2011 Led By China: IEA" (Reuters)
"Climate Scientists Say Warming Could Exceed 3.5 C" (AFP)
"UN Bonn Climate Conference Delegates Say Greenhouse Gas Ambitions Lacking" (Reuters)
"China Hits Back at Claims It Is Blocking Climate Talks" (AFP)
"Bonn Bickering Bedevils Climate Pact" (South African Press Association)
"UN Climate Talks 'Stalled', Kyoto Architect Tells AFP" (AFP)
"Countries To Vote for Chair of Next Climate Talks in Bonn Today" (Times of India)
