Selasa 02 Jun 2015 16:19 WIB

UN climate talks resume in Bonn

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 If the Arctic ice melts due to climate change, Indonesia is potentially affected. (illustration)
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If the Arctic ice melts due to climate change, Indonesia is potentially affected. (illustration)

REPUBLIKA.CO.ID, BERLIN -- Negotiators from nearly 200 countries resumed climate talks under a framework of the United Nations in Bonn, Germany, on Monday, focusing on a new global climate deal that was scheduled to be reached in Paris at the end of this year.

The 11-day meeting was tasked to streamline a 90-page draft text of the new deal, narrowing divergences over issues ranging from allocation of carbon emission reduction responsibilities to financial and technology support to developing countries.

French Foreign Minister Laurent Fabius, who will preside the UN climate conference in Paris from Nov. 30 to Dec. 11, told negotiators at the opening of the Bonn meeting that France would seek to reach a "pre-agreement" as early as October and he planned to organize ministerial meetings over climate in Paris on July 20- 21 and Sept. 7 to add impetus.

The Bonn meeting is one of the three remaining rounds of formal negotiations under the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) before the Paris conference.