Progress falters on 'Bali Roadmap' to new climate deal

0 Comments | AFP, June, 2008

BONN (AFP) — Another round of talks on the road towards a new global deal on climate change was wrapping up here Friday, battered by criticism that progress had been negligible.

The 12-day haggle under the 192-nation UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) was the second since the accord in Bali, Indonesia, last December that set down a "roadmap" towards a new planetary treaty.

Officials said some ground had been cleared but admitted to worries about what lay ahead.

The goal is to conclude the most ambitious and complex environmental pact ever attempted in December 2009 in Copenhagen.

"We now have a clear understanding among governments on what countries would ultimately like to see written into a long-term agreement to address climate...

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