UN climate talks in Bonn end in stalemate as poorer countries plead for action

A woman wipes her tears as she stands near her lost home in Mongla, Bangladesh, destroyed by Cyclone Amphan, on March 4, 2022. Climate change is increasing the damage that cyclones like Amphan cause in vulnerable countries like Bangladesh. © AP - Mahmud Hossain Opu

Ten days of climate talks wrapped up in Bonn, Germany, on Thursday with negotiators unable to agree on key issues ahead of the Cop28 summit in December. Developing countries that are especially vulnerable to climate change say richer ones are failing to deliver the funding they need to weather the worst effects of global warming.

“Climate change is not a North versus South issue,” UN Climate Change chief Simon Stiell said at the closing session in Bonn on Thursday.