Bangkok - Delegates who just ended a long and difficult session of climate negotiations in Bangkok made some technical progress but lack of a political mandate and backing from their capitals prevented the kind of breakthrough needed to significantly advance an agreement.
According to WWF, negotiators worked hard to get through hundreds of pages of draft text, and they managed to cut it roughly in half. However, they could not move forward on most significant issues such as finance commitments and institutions, emission reduction targets and the legal nature of the actual outcome of the process.
“After this session the text is shorter, but not much sweeter”, said Kim Carstensen, the leader of WWFs Global Climate Initiative.
“We know more clearly where the political stumbling blocks are, and we know that leaders rather than negotiators need to fix them. We therefore call on Heads of State to meet again before the climate talks culminate in Copenhagen in December,” said Carstensen.
“With only five negotiation days left ahead of Copenhagen, we can’t afford to waste time on missing mandates. It is absolutely necessary that negotiators bring new and clear political instructions with them when they meet next month in Barcelona”
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