FACTBOX-Climate talks in 2010 on road to Mexico
A U.N. meeting in Bonn, Germany, agreed on Sunday to add two extra meetings this year to help revive talks on a new deal to slow global warming after December's Copenhagen summit fell short of a full treaty
Reuters in AlertNet | 12 Apr 2010
Following are details of major meetings on climate change due in 2010:
U.N.
BONN, April 9-11 - Session among senior officials from 175 nations to plan for 2010
-- A U.N. group on Climate Change Financing, led by Britain and Ethiopia, is due to issue "initial outputs" before the U.N. meeting in Bonn starting on May 31.
BONN, May 31-June 11 - Senior officials meet in Bonn to review texts compiling ideas for slowing global warming. A draft text will be issued on May 17.
-- Two extra U.N. negotiating sessions, each at least a week long, will be added in the second half of the year. The venues and dates of the talks are not yet known.
CANCUN, Mexico, Nov. 29-Dec. 10 - Annual talks among the world's environment ministers.
-- The pace of U.N. talks marks a slowdown from 2009, when there was also a U.N. climate summit in New York on Sept. 22.
OTHER RELATED MEETINGS:
WASHINGTON, April 18-19 - The United States holds a first meeting in 2010 of the Major Economies Forum, grouping 17 emitters that account for 80 percent of world greenhouse gases.
COCHABAMBA, Bolivia, April 19-22 - Bolivian President Evo Morales hosts a meeting of 15,000 people, including 7-10 foreign leaders, called "World People's Conference on Climate Change and the Rights of Mother Earth".
SOUTH AFRICA, April 25-26 - Ministers from China, India, South Africa and Brazil meet as part of a plan to hold quarterly talks among the so-called BASIC group.
BONN, Germany, May 2-4 - German Chancellor Angela Merkel plans talks among about 45 environment ministers in the so-called Petersburg Dialogue.
OSLO, May 27 - Norway leads a meeting of ministers about protecting tropical forests, which soak up carbon dioxide as they grow.
MUSKOKA, Canada, June 25-27 - The Group of Eight industrialised nations holds an annual summit likely to touch on climate change, also a summit of the Group of 20.
SEOUL, Nov 11-12 - South Korea to host summit of Group of 20.
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