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Bonn talks: 3rd day of negociations toward a new global response to climate change

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Channel: United Nations · 2009 · News & Politics

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United Nations, New York, 12 August 2009 - Daily press briefing by the Office of the Spokesperson for the Secretary-General. In Bonn, Germany, a week-long informal negotiating session toward a new global response to climate change  ahead of the Copenhagen Conference next December-- entered its third day.
Yvo de Boer, Executive Secretary of UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) said that governments have made a good start in their effort to narrow down the number of options currently contained in the 200 pages of the main negotiating text. 
He added that progress was made particularly in the areas of providing technology and finance to help developing countries reduce their emissions and adapt to the inevitable effects of climate change. He also said that governments were looking at how mid-term emission reduction pledges could be translated into legally binding targets as a key component of the Copenhagen deal. 
De Boer stressed that the technical work of the negotiations now had to be connected to the political momentum received at the G-8 Summit and the Major Economies Forum meeting last month, so that Copenhagen can produce a strong, workable agreed outcome. 
The Bonn Talks will continue until Friday.

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