India, Dec. 2 -- Talks under the Ad hoc Working Group on Durban Platform (ADP), tasked to negotiate the global climate deal in 2015, seem to be heading nowhere.

It's day 10 of climate negotiations in Warsaw. Talks under the Ad hoc Working Group on Durban Platform (ADP), tasked to negotiate the global climate deal in 2015, seem to be heading nowhere.

On November 18, the two ADP co-chairs brought out a draft text and sought countries' views on it. Consensus eludes. The main areas of disagreement are over an annex in the co-chairs' text, which comprises indicative elements of the 2015 agreement. The indicative elements of the 2015 agreement include common threads, mitigation, adaptation, finance, technology development and transfer, capaci...