Meeting on Climate in Bonn Failed to Make the Air Cleaner
The 42nd session of the Subsidiary Bodies of the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change took place in Bonn in early June 2015. The aim of the session was to prepare a climate agreement that could be signed in Paris in December 2015. The meeting failed to make any substantial progress. Participant countries found it difficult to achieve compromises on a number of fundamental issues, and negotiators still have much to do to meet the deadline of the Paris meeting. A brief history of international...