Climate: Bonn talks fail to make operational Network on loss & damage (PRIV)
(Prerna Bomzan and Hilary Kung, Kathmandu)
Negotiations on the institutional arrangements for the Santiago Network on Loss and Damage (SNLD) at the recently concluded 56th session meetings of the UNFCCC's Subsidiary Bodies (SB 56) from 6 to 16 June in Bonn, Germany, resulted in only procedural conclusions, and failed to significantly advance the institutionalization of the Network, to make it operational as soon as possible in catalyzing the delivery of loss and damage-related technical assistance and other support to developing countries on the ground.

Climate: Rich exchange of views on the Global Goal on Adaptation (PRIV)
(Evelyn Teh, Penang)
A rich exchange of views and expectations of Parties took place at the three-day mandated event on the "Glasgow-Sharm el-Sheikh work programme on the Global Goal on Adaptation" (GLASS-GGA) at the 56th session meetings of the UNFCCC's Subsidiary Bodies (SB 56) in Bonn, Germany.

Pakistan: New and old Afghan refugees make the best of life (PRIV)
(IPS, Peshawar)
"We came here in 1979 after Russia's invasion of Afghanistan. My children and grandchildren have grown up here and they don't want to go back to that war-ravaged country. I go there occasionally to mourn the deaths of near and dear ones," says Muhammad Jabbar, 67, a former resident of Kabul, capital of Afghanistan.