itsy-bitsy drama in Bonn other than some star turns and a pantomime villain. All eyes are now on Poland,the next summit hostFor an issue that often seems to lurch from crisis to catastrophe, the steady but vital progress at the UNs global climate change talks in Bonn was reassuring. But there remains a very long way to go before the world gets on track to avoid catastrophic levels of global warming.
There was itsy-bitsy drama as the diplomatic sherpas trekked up the mountain of turning the political triumph of the 2015 Paris agreement into a technical reality, or with a rulebook that would allow countries to start ramping up action. They got approximately as far as expected in turning the conceptual into the textual,but no further.
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Source: theguardian.com