For the past week in Bonn, Germany, climate negotiators have tackled many of the core issues that are key to reaching a new international climate agreement in 2015. While the pace was slow at times, the discussions were thorough and constructive, building on the positive energy from the recent UN climate summit in New York.
Many questions came into sharper focus, as did the central tasks for the next major moment in the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) talks—COP 20 in Lima, Peru in December.
David Waskow of the World Resources Institute has summed up the some takeaways on what needs to happen in Lima to set the stage for an ambitious, effective global climate agreement.
Adaptation is one of the major concerns. Many countries raised adaptation as a central issue for the 2015 agreement. Countries will need to decide at Lima on whether to include adaptation in national contributions. Meanwhile, support seems to be building for the inclusion of a global adaptation goal in the main 2015 agreement.