The talks, being held in the Thai capital from 3-8 April, stalled on disagreement over an agenda for negotiations through the year ahead of a late November meeting in Durban, South Africa.
Developing nations in Bangkok pushed for a sharper focus on the fate of the Kyoto protocol - rich nations' pledges to cut emissions and climate finance for the poor - issues that Cancún did not fully address. The United States and others wanted to focus only on the less contentious Cancún agreements.
Christiana Figueres, head of the UN talks, said that while constructive, the meeting had also highlighted continuing divisions between governments, with a central issue being future of Kyoto, the world's main climate change treaty.
"Echoes of previous battles have come back to haunt us but a lot of countries do want to see progress and there are some positive signals," said Tim Gore, climate change policy adviser for Oxfam. Read the full report here.
Source: Reuters, guardian.co.uk.
