Michael Zammit Cutajar, was the first head of the UNFCCC and is the chair of the Ad-hoc Working Group on Long-Term Cooperative Action. He details the progress in the process since the meetings since April, and draws comparisons to the process to draft a new protocol in 2009 to the same point in 1997, when the Kyoto Protocol was drafted. Also see Michael Zammit Cutajar speaking from Bonn in April 2009.  And Yvo de Boer, speaking from Barcelona in 2009.