BARCELONA ¨C As Cyclone Biparjoy approached southern Pakistan this week, top Pakistani negotiator Nabeel Munir told governments at midyear U.N. climate talks in Bonn that it felt like he was ¡°conducting a primary school class,¡± amid squabbling over the meeting agenda.
The evening before the two-week negotiations were due to end in the German city on Thursday, a compromise was found, avoiding a diplomatic embarrassment ahead of December¡¯s key COP28 summit in Dubai.
But the Bonn outcome did not resolve the stark differences between rich nations that want to focus on a formal work program to boost emissions reductions ¡ª and some developing countries that are demanding they also address a lack of international finance to help them shift to clean energy.
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