State Department, Cable from Secretary of State John Kerry to the Environment, Science, and Technology Collective, “Bonn Climate Change Negotiations Session: Important, though incremental, Progress Made on Road to a Paris Agreement,” 23 June 2015, [Unclassified]

Date

Jun 23, 2015

Description

In a postmortem of the June 2015 Bonn Climate negotiations, Secretary Kerry writes to the Environment, Science, and Technology Collective (likely encompassing all State Department environmental diplomacy offices) stating that “progress was slow…and deliberate” but “important.” He also reviews the schedule of negotiations leading to the Paris conference and discussions on emission-reduction targets, mitigation ambition, deforestation, and developing country biennial reports. Kerry admits that with only “five months of negotiations remaining before COP-21, Parties are unwilling to give up their positions,” but the “United States and many other developed and developing countries are pushing for the process to move quickly.” Nonetheless, Kerry concludes that “it is critical we make substantial progress at our next session in August if we are to achieve a successful outcome in Paris.”

Source

Department of State FOIA

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