The latest round of United Nations-sponsored climate change talks ended Aug. 14 in Bonn with little tangible progress and a warning from the top U.N. climate change official that unless the pace of negotiations picks up, a year-end agreement in Copenhagen will be impossible. The talks, known as Intersessional Informal Consultations, were a prelude to ad-hoc working group meetings to take place Sept. 28-Oct. 9 in Bangkok. Before the Aug. 10-14 talks began, U.N. officials sought to play down their importance by pointing to the informal nature of the negotiations. No press conferences were expected to be called and the meetings would produce no official communique.
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