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UNFCCC Executive Secretary Yvo de Boer voiced concern about the pace of negotiations today at Bali, with just one day left of the conference in order to set an agenda for negotiations on a post 2012 climate change deal. “I'm very concerned with the pace of things," de Boer said. With many of the outstanding issues being linked to each other the situation has created an “an all-or-nothing situation,” de Boer added. If the work on a future agreement was not completed in time “the whole house of cards falls to pieces."
A key sticking point - the technology issue - had finally been worked out during the course of the day, with agreement that technology needs assessments made by developing countries would be turned into concrete project proposals. But still to be resolved was how to formulate the objectives of industrialised countries on the one hand and those of developing countries on the other.
“What’s becoming clear to me”, said de Boer, “ is the more robust industrialised countries are willing to be in terms of the effort they are working towards, the stronger the reaction you’re likely to get from developing countries.”
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