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UN Climate Change Talks in Bangkok (First week)

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United Nations, New York, 2 October 2009 - Negotiators have concluded the first week of the UN Climate Change Talks in Bangkok. The talks are the penultimate negotiating session ahead of the Copenhagen conference in December. 
Yvo de Boer, Executive Secretary of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) said he found it encouraging that progress was being made towards effective draft agreements in key areas. He underlined the progress made in adaptation, technology, and building capacity to deal with climate action in developing nations. He also said he found it very positive to see negotiators finally getting into the text and beginning to slim it down. 
De Boer however warned that progress toward higher industrialized world emission cuts remained disappointing. Progress on finance, he added, was disappointing as well. 
John Ashe, the Chair of the working group under the Kyoto Protocol, also said that progress was urgently needed next week on higher level of ambition in terms of emission reduction pledges. 
The Climate Change Talks in Bangkok will run through 9 October.

Bangkok Climate Change Talks website:
http://unfccc.int/meetings/intersessional/bangkok_09/items/4967.php

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