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By Mildred Mulenga Bonn, Germany – The United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change,(UNFCCC) has applauded Washington’s commitment to engage actively on climate change negotiations intended to secure a global deal in Copenhagen, Denmark, in December.
UNFCCC executive secretary Yvo de Boer said on Monday that President Barack Obama’s administration had taken interest in issues relating to climate change and wanted to engage actively as well as reach out to developing countries to assist them.
“US is now back into negotiations,” de Boer told journalists at the climate change talks currently taking place in Bonn, Germany.
The Obama administration’s engagement in the climate change talks has breathed new life into the talks and de Boer said more detailed plans that the US wished to engage on would be seen at the next round of talks scheduled for June.
The talks in Bonn that started on 29 March are designed to lay the foundation for Copenhagen, where a global deal on climate will be sealed.
Parties meeting in Bonn are discussing a key document that describes areas of convergence in the ideas and proposals from Parties under the Kyoto Protocol and also exploring options for dealing with areas of divergence, and identifying any gaps that need to be filled in reaching an effective and ambitious climate change deal in Copenhagen in December.
More than 2,000 participants are attending the Bonn talks which will end on Wednesday.
The current talks will fundamentally set the scene for the next meeting in June, at which the first draft of a real negotiating text for Copenhagen will be on the table.
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