Cooking up a climate deal

United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) executive secretary Christiana Figueres said progress had been made. "Everyone understands that it's hard to cook a meal without a pot. Governments are much closer now to actually making the pot." The dispute over this meal begins, of course, with the question of whether it's one dish or two.

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The battered kettle of the Kyoto Protocol has been welded together in a new draft text - between now and the next UN Climate Change Conference (in Mexico at the end of 2010), negotiators will see if it holds water. "This week has given governments a final opportunity to be clear on their individual stances," said Figueres. "Tianjin has to be the place where they make clear what their collective stance is going to be," she said. Negotiators meet again in October in Tianjin, China.