AlertNet: A slight breath of fresh air entered the UNFCCC climate negotiations last week in Bonn, Germany. Held in the old German parliament - which was designed to demonstrate transparency and light - the meeting took on a more open feel than the past several COPs and inter-sessionals.
Instead of arguing over the agenda, negotiators got down to work, discussing ways to ramp up countries' emissions-reduction commitments now and to move toward a 2015 international climate action agreement. Reaching these...