Bonn Climate Talks: What did - and didn't - happen at the latest climate talks

Cecilia Keating
clock • 10 min read
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Observers have been left hugely disappointed at the lack of progress towards a new deal on climate finance at the latest round of UN climate negotiations

A stalemate, a damp squib, a flop, the worst climate talks in 15 years. These are just some of the ways this year's Bonn Climate Conference has been described, after international climate negotiators...

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