WTO: GC chair appoints facilitators to steer reform talks post-MC14 (PRIV)
(D. Ravi Kanth, Geneva)
The chair of the World Trade Organization's General Council (GC) on 22 June announced the nomination of five facilitators to oversee the discussions on WTO reform, who will report to the GC chair - a development that has come about almost three months after the failed WTO's 14th ministerial conference (MC14) in Yaounde, Cameroon, said people familiar with the development.

Trade: US and Iran claim "significant progress" at Burgenstock talks (PRIV)
(D. Ravi Kanth, Geneva)
The United States and Iran on 22 June declared that they had made significant progress following the signing of a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) at the Swiss resort of Burgenstock.

Climate: Parties clash over future of Mitigation Work Programme (PRIV)
(Radhika Chatterjee, New Delhi)
Only a procedural conclusion was adopted on the "Sharm-el-Sheikh Mitigation Ambition and Implementation Work Programme" (known as Mitigation Work Programme or MWP) at SB64 in Bonn, Germany, as the Subsidiary Body for Scientific and Technological Advice (SBSTA) and the Subsidiary Body for Implementation (SBI) "could not conclude considerations of this matter at this session."