“Adaptation, mitigation, technology transfer and financing” were the issues dealt with at the climate change meeting that drew environment ministers from 25 countries to the southern Argentine city of El Calafate. The meeting helped delineate “concrete proposals for building consenus” on the way to the 2009 Conference of Parties to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change, said Sandra Firpo, spokeswoman for Argentina's Secretariat of Environment and Sustainable Development.

The Sep. 15-18 meet was part of a series of informal talks that environment ministers have been holding since 2005. Previous dialogues took place in Greenland, South Africa and Switzerland.