| Climate negotiations restart in Bonn |
| Monday, 31 May 2010 16:36 |
 Today the UN climate negotiations restarted in Bonn, Germany, serving as the first fully-fledged negotiating session since last December's climate flop in Copenhagen. Although certain elements in the media would have you believe that infighting has already begun, CAN remains optimistic. While we have pointed out some issues that need to be addressed in the coming two weeks - e.g., fast start finance, logging loopholes, the "gigatonne gap" between what's been pledged and what's needed - we see no real impediment to these things being resolved before the next Conference of Parties (COP) in December in Cancun. In other positive developments, a new, streamlined text that will serve as the basis for a new negotiating text has been released. So it's really not all doom and gloom!Many members of the CAN Europe network will be here in Bonn over the next two weeks, urging strength of character from the EU. Later this week, expect a CAN Europe reaction to an EU analysis of fast start finance pledges, due for official release by the EU on Thursday. In the meantime, you can keep up to date with ECO, CAN International's daily newsletter at the negotiations. Photo: No loan sharks demonstration in Bonn, by Hanne Malat, courtesy Oxfam
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