Kyoto Lite: COP 6, part 2: The Bonn agreement

Eight months after the near-calamitous breakdown of the climate negotiations in The Hague last November, the task for delegates at "COP6, part 2" remained to reach political and technical agreements on the small print for the rules of the Kyoto Protocol. The resumed sixth session of the Conference of the Parties (COP 6) to the United Nations Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) took place in Bonn from the 16th-27th July and ended with a political agreement on many of the core elements needed to finalize the rules of the Kyoto Protocol. Stephen Peake reports