UN climate change talks end in Bonn

UN climate change talks in Bonn took place from 31 May to 9 June 2010, with the final outcome to be presented at the UN Climate Change Conference in Cancún (COP 16) at the end of this year. The Ad Hoc Working Group on Long-term Cooperative Action under the Convention (AWG-LCAⁱ) undertook detailed discussions on reducing greenhouse gases, adapting to the inevitable effects of climate change, the transfer of clean technology and reducing emissions from deforestation and capacity building. All industrialised countries have pledged emission reduction targets, and 39 developing countries have pledged voluntary actions to limit their greenhouse gas emissions. The pledges made by rich countries so far add up to about 12-19% of emissions over 1990 levels by 2020.

The next UNFCCC negotiating session is scheduled to take place in August in Bonn, followed by a second one-week intersessional meeting before the UN Climate Change Conference in Cancún.

The farewell statement from Yvo de Boer, executive secretary of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change, can be found here:
http://unfccc.int/files/press/statements/application/pdf/100609_yvo_speech_farewell.pdf