Climate Talks Stuck on Targets, Finance

International climate change negotiations in Bangkok made little headway this week.

Reuters reported that talks have stalled out on the same old speed bumps: emissions targets for developed nations and adaptation funding for developing nations.

This round of meetings, which concludes on October 9, is the last major negotiating session before the Copenhagen summit. 

"Progress toward high industrialized world emissions cuts remains disappointing during these talks. We’re not seeing real advances there," Yvo de Boer, the head of the U.N. Climate Change Secretariat, told reporters.

"Movement on the ways and means and institutions to raise, manage and deploy financing support for the developing world climate action also remains slow."

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