UN climate chief laments lack of progress at key talks

Paris (AFP) June 13, 2024

The UN's climate chief said Thursday that nations had "a very steep mountain to climb" ahead of the year-end COP29 summit after negotiators made little progress at crunch midyear talks. Simon Stiell said "modest steps" were taken at the talks in Bonn, Germany, but much was left undone as the world's most important climate summit looms in November in Baku, Azerbaijan. "We took a detour on