MEXICO: The fate of the world won’t be decided over the next three weeks – but the fate of a proposed global climate treaty just might be.
By the first week in October the world should have a good idea what the shape and scale of that ambitious project will be.
It’s then that we’ll find out if the putative agreement is, in the worlds of a senior negotiator, a “nothing-burger”.
A real deal or a meal deal?
Last week’s UN meeting in Bonn, saw the parties grappling with a flabby, 83-page draft document that essentially lists every country’s position on everything.
By the end of a slow set of negotiations in the former West German capital, there was little progress in slimming it down.
So to keep the project on the rails, the 196 parties agreed to give the two co-chairs of the talks permission to go away and slash, burn and shrink the weighty wish-list into a draft agreement for Paris.
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