With seven months left, negotiators acknowledged that more work is needed before they can present ministers with a draft text at a December climate summit in Katowice, Poland. An additional round of talks has been scheduled for Sept. 3-8 in Bangkok, Thailand, to make that happen. Patricia Espinosa, head of the U.N. agency that oversees climate talks, said she was satisfied some progress had been made during the negotiations that ended Thursday in Bonn, Germany. The Paris deal is widely credited for the efforts made by the previous U.S. administration under President Barack Obama in bringing together the diverging interests of rich and poor countries. A group of U.N. human rights experts warned this week that climate summit host Poland risked stifling the kind of spontaneous environmental protests normally seen at climate summits because of new laws that give security services additional powers.

Source: ABC News May 10, 2018 08:48 UTC