Representatives from 182 countries are attending the meeting that is being held after six months of the Copenhagen Climate Change Summit in December last year. The Copenhagen Climate Change Summit had however failed to reach consensus in cutting down green house gas emissions. Some issues related with green house gas emissions will be presented in the 16th Conference of Parties (COP-16) scheduled for November 2010 in Cancun, Mexico.

“We are greatly impacted by climate change due to the rise in temperature and have been victimised from frequent and disastrous floods for which we are not responsible,” reads a statement presented by Nepal in the plenary today.

Batu Krishna Uprety, Chief of the Climate Change division at the Ministry of Environment, and leader of the negotiation team said from Bonn that there is huge pressure on the developed countries to address the issues of the poor countries who are mostly victimised by the impact of climate change. “We see greater urgency for an instrument to address the root cause, ongoing adverse impacts and emerging threats of climate change for which we are negotiating,” said Uprety.

The UN has expressed hope to track down some points for the consensus in Mexico meeting in November 2010. “Climate negotiations over the next two weeks will be on track if they keep focused on a common way forward towards a concrete and realistic goal in Cancun. There is growing consensus on what that goal for Cancun can be — namely, a full, operational architecture to implement effective, collective climate action,” said Yvo de Boer, head of United Nations' Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) in a release.