Grim tidings from Bonn - The Drum Opinion (Australian Broadcasting Corporation)
As the intersessional meetings of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change began with a faltering limp in Bonn last week, it was hard not to sense a grand emptiness.
The giant rooms of the Maritim Hotel in Bonn have been witness to almost nothing happening, as the climate talks have barely reached a murmur.
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If COP 15 in Copenhagen was the blockbuster that went horribly wrong, the current event in Bonn is a kind of hollowed out residue, like the umpteenth instalment of a film franchise, now devoid of any wit or sense of purpose, but still bearing the moniker of the original.
Enervated delegates traversing a mental landscape somewhere between desperate and resigned, physically meander from room to room looking for half-useful things to do.
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Meanwhile, in Bonn, delegates circle around listlessly.
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