Climate Talkies

Bonn climate talks: SBI session ends without adoption of agenda

Negotiating parties hope to break impasse at Warsaw COP

Rise of Asia: Will GDP do the talking?

The trend is now backed by numbers, as revealed by the European Report on Development

Geneva climate talks: countries agree on draft text for Paris deal

Numerous controversial, unresolved arguments yet to be sorted out

Discussions to draft text for Paris climate agreement from June

Parties to hold negotiations in a formal contact group

COP27 diary (November 7): ‘World on a highway to climate hell, with our foot on the accelerator’

A round-up of what went on at the Sharm El-Sheikh summit  

Warsaw climate talks: activists shunted out for showing solidarity with typhoon-hit Philippines

Developed countries counter agendas of the EU and the US

SBI update: session at Bonn suspended without adopting agenda

Lack of consensus forces move

Carbon dioxide crosses 400 ppm mark

Breach indicates sources of CO2 emissions in the US have gone up

Durban action plan talks get stalled

Parties disagree over ambition on climate action

UN climate talks: little progress in first week

No consensus on Green Climate Fund, loss and damage arising from climate change impacts

Climate negotiations resume in Bonn; focus on developing text of draft agreement

Negotiations will also explore opportunities for capturing carbon and non-CO2 gases

Mistakes made at Copenhagen may get repeated at Doha climate talks

Qatar could ask ministers to short-circuit negotiations

Climate talks in Bonn conclude but no deal in sight

To revise or not to revise Annexes remains the central divisive issue

Bonn climate talks: no change in parties' negotiating positions

Parties anxious to start discussions to reach 2015 agreement

SBI deadlock looms over Bonn climate talks

Russia raises matter of procedural irregularities at Doha; parallel sessions continue

Who pays and how: the COP28 dilemma of debt and equity

COP28 will take stock of the step change in ambition needed, but the gulf in climate finance promises and realities presents an obstacle to a …

Fossil fuel industry’s posturing in climate debate: OPEC gets COP28 pavilion

Report by group of countries exporting oil predicts 16-million-barrel-a-day increase in oil consumption through 2045, contradicting IEA claims

'Developing countries are treated in a very unfair manner'

Bernarditas Muller, a seasoned member of the Philippines negotiating team, is among the rare few who call a spade a spade. Speaking to Indrajit …

Climate talks at Bonn miss the point, yet again

Countries could at least have arrived at clear texts on key issues for final decisions at COP 25 in Chile

COP23 at Bonn: US scales down delegation size significantly

The strength of US delegation for COP23 has dwindled to just 48, a huge dip from 124 in 2015

COP 23 at Bonn: Countries show no concern over US exit from Paris deal, see negotiations as business as usual

It was expected that countries would come prepared to Bonn with a strategy to deal with the US

India working towards joining Paris Agreement this year

President Barack Obama welcomed Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi to the White House for their seventh bilateral meeting

Bonn climate meet ends amid concern over lack of urgency in accelerating negotiations

While the Bonn meet was packed with hundreds of parallel meetings, progress on readying a text for COP 24 has been slow

Bonn climate talks end amidst uncertainty over US engagement with Paris Agreement

Finance, adaptation and budget were issues which divided countries. Agriculture was the most neglected topic at the event