Delegates at the close of a week-long session in Bonn say, UN climate talks tasked with curbing the threat of global warming are backsliding. According to US negotiator Jonathan Pershing, record global temperatures, forest fires in Russia, lethal floods in Pakistan “are all consistent with the kind of changes we could expect from climate change, and they will get worse if we don't act quickly. It also pledged long-term financing to help poor countries green their economies and cope with consequences of climate change, without specifying where the money would come from.