The outgoing head of the UN's climate forum on Tuesday urged rich countries to make good on promises they made last December in Copenhagen to help rebuild trust after the storm-tossed summit. Yvo de Boer said a 12-day negotiation round starting in Bonn next Monday had to lay down the foundations for work leading up to the climate treaty that notoriously eluded world leaders in Copenhagen. "The priority for the industrialised countries is to deploy the 30 billion (dollars) they pledged from now until 2012 in short-term finance to kickstart climate action in developing countries," de Boer said in a news conference webcast from Bonn.

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