Meetings of the ad hoc working groups
of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change and the
Kyoto Protocol ended in Bangkok on 9 October; it is one of the last
stages of Bali Roadmap set out on the road toward a comprehensive
post-2012 global agreement on climate change.

Bangkok Meetings
reported “progress on what will be the key elements of an
agreement in Copenhagen, however, there remains a lack of clarity on
some key elements”, such as funds (for mitigation, adaptation
and technology) and the intermediate targets for reducing greenhouse
gas emissions of industrialized countries, UNFCCC Executive Secretary
Yvo De Boer said.

Meetings in Bangkok, concluded Mr. De
Boer, “expressed the common desire to build an architecture to
fulfill them quickly to international action on climate”, a fact
certainly desirable and positive, “but still significant
discrepancies.

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