The world is still on course for an international agreement to tackle global warming in 2015 despite days of bickering in Bonn over how decisions are made under the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC).
Russia – supported by Belarus and Ukraine – collapsed one of the key strands of the UN talks here this week after repeatedly complaining about how its objections to a deal renewing the Kyoto Protocol were ignored at last December’s climate summit in Doha.
But UNFCCC executive secretary Christiana Figueres was “encouraged by the progress” made over the past two weeks, and said it laid the groundwork for this year’s Warsaw climate summit in November and, ultimately, an agreement in 2015.
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