Meena Menon

Mexico is making some last-ditch efforts at a consensus

CANCUN: President of the Conference of the Parties (COP) of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) Patricia Espinosa on Wednesday decided to constitute smaller groups headed by ministers to discuss contentious issues at the climate change conference, a move which backfired when Bolivia walked out

New Delhi: Visiting Japanese foreign minister Katsuya Okada on Sunday met environment minister Jairam Ramesh and is understood to have a dialogue on global issues such as climate change in the run-up to the UN climate meet at Cancun later this year.

Mexico is working overtime to save the upcoming UN Climate Change Summit in Cancun from collapse.

While developing country parties are worried with the disbursement of fast-track climate

fund committed by developed countries in Copenhagen, a new institutional arrangement for financing came into focus in the ongoing climate change meeting here in Bonn today.

Delegates of the country parties of the UNFCCC discussed the issue in a meeting of the Ad-hoc Working Group on Long-term Cooperati

Urmi A Goswami BONN

PROVIDING adequate amount of money to help developing countries to slow down climate change continues to be a stumbling block at the negotiating process here. There are two parts to the finance knot: The short-term or fast-track financing of $30 billion by 2012 and the long-term or mobilising of funds to the tune of $100 billion annually by 2020.