Ministers called in to break deadlock after unproductive climate talks

(Climate Home News, 17 Jun 2021) Preparatory online talks ahead of the Cop26 climate summit ended in stalemate on Wednesday, with little sign of a landing ground on the last unresolved issues of the Paris Agreement.

While the session wasn’t derailed by the novel online format, talks were tedious and exhausting for climate negotiators, who worked at all hours of night and day during the three-week session.

The extended talks were not enough to narrow down points of contention on the overdue Paris rulebook, which countries are expected to finalise at Cop26 in Glasgow, UK, in November.

Talks on carbon markets, transparency and aligning countries’ climate plans to cover a common time period of 5 or 10 years all reached “stalemate”, a senior climate diplomat told Climate Home News. The discussions are due to be taken up by ministers, in the hope of finding compromise.

“Overall, I’ve seen some progress on the less contentious issues but it seems to me that the mindset of engagement will need to change if progress on difficult issues is to be achieved this year at Cop26,” Tosi Mpanu Mpanu, chair of the subsidiary body on science and technology, told the closing plenary on Thursday.

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