Despite months of discussions since COP27, there was no agreement on adopting the proposed agendas. Read more at straitstimes.com.
BERLIN - The United Nations climate talks in Germany kicked off on Monday without an agreed final agenda for technical discussions, a senior negotiator said, clouding optimism that the 10-day meeting would result in a clear programme for the COP28 conference in Dubai.
“What we experienced today ... with the non-adoption of the agenda, it’s not desirable, but it’s not uncommon in a party-driven process,” Mr Simon Stiell, executive secretary of the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change , told a news conference on Monday. Mr Tom Evans, a policy adviser at independent climate think-tank E3G, said the main issue was whether to have an agenda item on climate change mitigation in the Bonn conference, which the European Union had proposed, posing the question of fossil fuels phase-out.
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