Post-2012 Climate Talks Stalled at UN Conference
26.05.2005 - Other
Global talks on an international regime to combat climate change after Kyoto ends made little progress at a UN conference in Bonn. EU and US delegates were unable to agree on a common statement after bilateral meetings on 18 May.
Over 500 government experts from 150 countries met in Bonn on 16-17 May for informal talks on an international regime to combat climate change after 2012, when the first commitment period under the Kyoto Protocol draws to an end.
The central focus of the EU proposal is to get all major global CO2 emitters, including the United States and emerging economies China and India, to sign up to a binding international scheme.
Preliminary talks over an international regime to curb climate change after 2012 reached a dead-end in Bonn following a UN-sponsored government seminar on 17 May.
Although officially labeled a mere "informal exchange of information" on measures already adopted by the countries signed up to the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCC), it was widely expected that the meeting would at least lay the foundations for ministerial talks to be held in Montreal later this year.
But EU and US attempts at finding common ground on a post-2012 framework have so far failed and major emerging economies are still reluctant to curb their surging greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions.
