Friday 13 June
While there were some new concrete proposals for how to raise money for poor countries to adapt to climate change and develop using clean technology, the UN climate talks in Bonn finished today with no substantive outcomes.
Positive workshops took place in the first week where ideas to generate financing for adaptation and clean technology, including the idea of a tax on international shipping, the sale of emissions allowances to developed countries (normally these are given for free), and a fund levied from all countries based on how much each pollutes.
These ideas came mainly from developing countries, although Norway and Switzerland also had proposals to put on the table.
But the pace in Bonn was disappointingly slow, with little in the way of ambition from most developed countries regarding tough targets for themselves, or finance for developing countries.
A scale up of ambition is needed to reassure developing countries that developed countries really are serious about tackling climate change.
But this is not to say that the world should turn to other forums such as the G8 or the Major Economies Meeting to provide an answer.
While Tearfund hopes that these processes can make a contribution towards achieving agreement in Copenhagen, these are not forums where the voices of poor countries most affected by climate change are heard.
A global deal must be just that: global. It is only through the United Nations' climate talks that a truly international climate deal can be struck that ensures that the agreement of all countries, including the poorest.
Tearfund urges all nations to step up the pace at the next round of talks in Ghana in August.
There are only 18 months to the Copenhagen talks which must see a new global climate deal agreed to ensure there is no gap after the current Kyoto targets end in 2012.