From Green Right Now Reports
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About 175 nations will continue climate talks in Cancun, Mexico, later this year, but the United Nations’ top climate official predicts a full treaty won’t be completed in 2010.
Delegates at the April 9-11 talks in Bonn agreed to meet November 29-December 10 in Cancun as debate between rich and poor nations on the subject of global warming continued to produce little in the way of substantive agreement. The recent discussions came in the wake of last December’s Climate Change Conference in Copenhagen, which produced the Copenhagen Accord that stated objectives but largely left open the question of how they might be accomplished.
“We had an outcome that was pretty positive,” Johnathan Pershing, head of the U.S. delegation, said as the Bonn sessions came to a close. “That is a good augury for what comes next.”
Still, the U.N.’s Yvo de Boer suggested a focus on smaller steps in 2010, citing aid to poor nations to cope with the impacts of climate change, protection of tropical forests and new clean technologies.
“I don’t think Cancun will provide the final outcome,” de Boer told Reuters near the end of the Bonn meetings.