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Wed 06 Jun 2009Progress slow but sure at talks on climate change
ARCTIC SUMMER sea ice is probably melting faster than the glacial pace of climate talks in Bonn this week, but those involved in the latest round of negotiations insist progress is being made – if slowly.
Delegates arriving at the Hotel Maritim conference centre have smiled wryly at a Greenpeace poster pinned to one of the trees off Robert Schuman Platz: “If the world was a bank, you would have already saved it.”
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