A new round of climate talks will be held in Bangkok from August 30 to September 5 to prepare for minister-level negotiations at year end, the U.N. Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) said Friday. The talks, which will be at a senior level, will take place at the U.N. Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific (UNESCAP), UNFCCC said in a press release issued from Bonn. The 195 parties to the UNFCCC are to meet in Doha, Qatar from November 26 to December 7 for their annual summit. Their aim is to negotiate a new global pact on the greenhouse-gas problem that would be completed by 2015 and take effect in 2020. A mid-year round of talks concluded in Bonn last week but was marked by procedural disagreements and saw little progress. The pre-Qatar meeting had been dependent on getting financial support. “Pledges have been received from the state of Qatar, Norway, Germany, the UK, Japan, and Sweden,” the UNFCCC said.
