In Bonn, the pursuit of elusive climate finance

The Bonn climate conference—the mid-year climate review—serves as a prelude to the annual Conference of Parties (COP).

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To that end, the stormy start to the ongoing mid-year review in the German city is not good augury. On the first day, developing nations clashed with developed nations—Donald Trump-governed US is absent from the talks—over two inclusions to the conference agenda proposed by the former: discussions on climate finance under Article 9.1 of the Paris Agreement, and on unilateral trade measures with climate goals in mind.