AMSTERDAM (AP) — Special U.N. climate envoy Gro Harlem Brundtland says she expects talks on a new climate change agreement to increasingly move outside formal U.N. negotiations.
Brundtland says backstage discussions among the U.S., China, India, Brazil and South Africa, will play a critical role leading up to the next major U.N. climate conference in Mexico at the end of this year.
The limited accord reached at the last climate summit in Copenhagen emerged from a late-night meeting among the leaders of those five countries.
Brundtland said the Copenhagen experience will continue as the base for discussions this year. "You will have more of a double track system" in addition to the U.N. framework, she said.
Brundtland spoke to reporters Tuesday at a biofuels conference.
