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Article snippet: Want the latest climate news in your inbox? You can sign up here to receive Climate Fwd:, our new email newsletter. Hello, and welcome to our coverage of the Bonn climate conference. Negotiators from nearly 200 countries are meeting this week in Bonn, Germany, in the biggest climate change talks of the year. Our reporters Lisa Friedman and Brad Plumer are there and will be bringing you news and updates throughout. We are collecting all of our coverage here, in one place. Let’s start with the basics. You’ve probably heard of the Paris climate agreement from 2015, when world leaders agreed to voluntarily limit greenhouse gas emissions in an effort to stave off the worst effects of global warming. That agreement was forged at the United Nations’ annual climate change conference, which was in Paris that year. This year, it’s in Bonn. On the agenda this time around: filling in the details of those Paris pledges. They are voluntary, vague, and not easily verifiable. The diplomats in Bonn hope to firm up the countries’ commitments and make it easier to measure progress. • Here are answers to the five biggest questions about Bonn, including: What’s the best-case scenario? And what might set off a fight? • Here are five world leaders, or sets of leaders, who are emerging as climate change champions as the United States disengages. Under the Paris deal, nearly 200 countries submitted proposals for cutting their greenhouse gas emissions. Yet not one of the major industriali... Link to the full article to read more