UN sponsored climate change talks inl Bangkok.

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Updated September 29, 2009 16:59:29

Another round of UN sponsored climate change talks has kicked off, this time in the Thai capital Bangkok. The talks follow on from last week's meeting in New York, and have brought together delegates from 180 countries. They'll continue work on finalising a draft text ahead of the crucial Copenhagen summit in December. That meeting is intended to produce a successor agreement to the Kyoto Protocol on reducing greenhouse gas emissions when it expires in 2012. As Claudette Werden reports, negotiations this week will try to get firm commitments from wealthy countries on the extent they're willing to pay to help poorer nations get access to clean technology and energy.

Presenter: Claudette Werden
Speaker: Executive Secretary of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change, Yvo De Boer; Nick Rowley, Kinesis Climate Change Organisation; Josh Carmody, Fund Manager of the Asian Development Bank's (ADB), Asia Pacific Carbon Fund

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