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The Road to Marrakesh: Bonn Climate Talks Begin, After Paris a “New Era of Collaboration”

Posted on May 16, 2016 by Thomas Schueneman | 0 Comments

At the start of climate change talks this week in Bonn at UN headquarters for the Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC), outgoing secretary general Christiana Figueres called the historic Paris Agreement the beginning of a “new era of collaboration” for climate negotiations. The 10-day conference in Bonn is the first UN climate meeting since COP 21 in Paris last December. After the formal…

Negotiating text for the COP21 climate conference was agreed to in Geneva. One more step on the road to Paris

Progress on the Road to Paris: Negotiating Text for COP 21 Agreement Published

Posted on March 6, 2015 by Thomas Schueneman | 0 Comments

A first step on the road to Paris – Last week the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) announced that important progress had been won on the road to Paris, where, at the COP 21 climate conference later this year, the goal is to reach a binding global climate treaty. Any hope of achieving such a pact rests in the hard work of…

Climate negotiations in Bonn end on a guardedly positive note

Climate Negotiations Wind Down in Bonn, Seek a More Flexible Approach on the Road to Paris and COP 21

Posted on May 8, 2013 by Thomas Schueneman | 0 Comments

The latest round of climate negotiations wound down last Friday in Bonn, Germany with most delegates from the nearly two hundred countries represented expressing guarded optimism that progress has been made toward laying the groundwork for an international agreement to be signed in 2015 at the COP 21 climate conference in Paris. In learning lessons from the past, especially with…

Climate Talks Conclude in Bonn

Posted on June 17, 2011 by Thomas Schueneman | 0 Comments

Climate talks wrapped up in Bonn today. The two-week negotiations helped pave the way for COP17 later this year in Durban, South Africa. The following video is a summary of the work done from Christiana Figueres, executive secretary for the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC). [yframe url=’http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vxsNE95X8pw’] A statement released by the UNFCCC details issues addressed at…

Climate Talks Close in Bonn: Easing Divisiveness, Looking To Cancun, Capetown and Beyond

Posted on June 14, 2010 by Thomas Schueneman | 1 Comments

The “Road to Cancun” moves haltingly forward with the conclusion last Friday of the United Nations climate talks in Bonn. According to a UN press release, the two-week negotiating session made “important progress towards concluding what was left incomplete at the UN Climate Change Conference in Copenhagen in 2009”. The Bonn talks were the first official negotiations since the end…

UNFCC Executive Secretary Talks of Expectations for Bonn Climate Talks

Posted on May 25, 2010 by Thomas Schueneman | 0 Comments

Current UNFCCC Executive Secretary Yvo de Boer addressed the press this morning (see video below) in advance of the first UN climate negotiations next week in Bonn. Soon to be succeeded by incoming Executive Secretary designate Christiana Figueres, de Boer may harbor some relief in not charged with shepherding the next major climate conference, COP16, later this year in Cancún,…

UNFCC Executive Secretary: “World Not Standing Still on Climate Change”

Posted on May 21, 2009 by Thomas Schueneman | 0 Comments

In preparation for the COP 15 climate talks in Copenhagen this December, the UNFCC has published the Central Negotiating Text for consideration at the next session of the Ad Hoc Working Group on Long-term Cooperative Action under the Convention in Bonn this June.