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"Imbalance" became the key word on the last day of the UN (the United Nations) climate talks in Bonn, as delegates criticized a new blueprint for a UN legally- binding climate treaty on Friday. However, the split could not cover some progress made during the past 12 days, even it might be just a little.

Although a widely-accepted treaty still seemed unlikely this year and debates among parties were heated as usual, a positive atmosphere is restored in the two-week conference, the largest gathering of delegates of 185 countries since the Copenhagen summit in late 2009.
"A big step forward is now possible at Cancn, in the form of a full package of operational measures that will allow countries to take faster, stronger action across all areas of climate change, " said Yvo de Boer, the Executive Secretary of UNFCCC (United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change).
The outgoing UN climate chief said the progress was made in fleshing out the specifics of how a climate regime can work in practice, including climate funds, transfer of clean technologies, slowing deforestation and capacity building.
"Most importantly, countries are talking to and with each other and not at each other. It shows that the UN provides the forum for countries to work together when there is the will," de Boer said.