Draft UN Text at Bonn Climate Talks Clears First Hurdle. By Richard Ingham, AFP, June 1, 2009. "The draft of a negotiating text for a new pact on climate change survived its maiden hearing at UN talks on Monday, providing a boost on a road still strewn with many obstacles, delegates and officials said... The June 1-12 meeting in Bonn gathers a 192-country forum tasked with steering the world to a new treaty that will whip the threat from global warming. If all goes well, the accord will be finished in Copenhagen in December and take effect from the end of 2012, spelling out curbs on greenhouse-gas emissions by 2020 that will be deepened by 2050. But the process has made only snail-like progress, hampered by discord between rich and poor countries as to how deep these cuts should be and friction between advanced economies over burden-sharing."
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