At the climate negotiations here in Bonn, the main discussions on adaptation have come to a close after a “second reading” of the draft negotiating text. Ecosystem-based adaptation, which we blogged about last week, has gained strong support from country delegations and is included in the text that is coming out of these meetings. But with six months to go to before a climate deal will be finalized in Copenhagen, there are plenty of details and potential obstacles to be addressed inside and outside these negotiations before nations will be able to make use of any adaptation agreement. The talks …

It's sometimes easy for nature to get lost during the international climate change negotiations here in Bonn. Terms like "technology diffusion," "financial mechanisms" and "mitigation commitments" often dominate the talks. But what does nature have to do with climate change and how does nature play into these negotiations? A group of some of the world's top scientific experts released findings [PDF] in Bonn this week to help give negotiators those answers. During a side event [PDF] at the Bonn talks on Tuesday, the expert group - officially called the Ad Hoc Technical Expert Group on Biodiversity and Climate Change and …