As the second week of climate talks gets underway in Bonn, Germany, the negotiating environment has worsened, according to a Reuters report.
As a result, November’s Climate Summit in Cancun, Mexico, isn’t likely to see major agreement for an international treaty on greenhouse gas reductions.
Some of the head way made at the Copenhagen Summit last year has been lost, as countries have gone back on commitments to monitoring and measuring emissions.
Differences remain as to how the REDD plan for addressing deforestation will function. And developing nations continue to assert that the emissions targets set by rich nations fall dangerously short of the targets suggested by climate scientists.
And, of course, the failure of the U.S. to pass climate legislation this year was another big setback for talks.
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