Climate Deal Draft

A fresh draft of a UN climate deal released Wednesday offers wide-ranging options to raise funding for poorer countries, signalling that tough negotiations remain at the COP29 talks in Baku.

A draft UN climate deal called Wednesday for the world to transition away from fossil fuels, in a last-ditch bid to break a deadlock between nations seeking a phase-out from oil, gas and coal and Saudi-led crude producers.

A first formal draft of the UN climate summit deal in Egypt was published on Friday, yet again leaving out India's call for phase down of all fossil fuels and without any proposal on loss and damage funding.

The United Nations published a first draft of the climate deal on Thursday and it doesn't mention a phase down of all fossil fuels, a proposal that was put forward by India.

The British hosts of the COP26 UNclimate conference in Glasgow have proposed that countries raise their ambitions to slash greenhouse gas emissions by next year in a draft political decision that will be negotiated over the next three days.

India today welcomed the final draft of an ambitious climate deal as "balanced" and said its concerns have been taken care of in the document.

French President Francois Hollande was expected to attend the unveiling today of a planned final draft of a UN pact to tame global warming, following marathon negotiations in the northern outskirts of Paris.

The years-long quest for a universal pact to avert catastrophic climate change neared the finish line today with conference host France announcing that the final draft had been completed in the early hours of the morning.

Differences on key issues like emission norms and funding persisted but the climate change conference decided to sit one extra day on Saturday to wrap up a deal on a draft that showed progress on other crucial aspects.

Raising hopes of a landmark climate deal, negotiators today unveiled a new shorter draft incorporating major progress as well as the differences, two days ahead of the deadline for the United Nations (UN) accord to curb greenhouse gas emissions.

Negotiators at the climate change summit on Thursday unveiled a new draft deal on which there was still no agreement even as India sought global support for bringing down the cost of renewable power to reduce reliance on coal.

World leaders have vowed to seek a comprehensive climate deal at an upcoming UN conference in Paris, a draft statement seen by AFP said today.

South Africa on Monday criticised a draft United Nations accord on fighting climate change as a form of "apartheid" against developing nations.

Almost 200 countries agreed a draft text for a deal to fight climate change on Friday, but put off hard choices about narrowing down a vast range of options for limiting a damaging rise in temperatures.

UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon said on Thursday that he will travel to the Climate Conference in Peru next week and is hopeful that delegates will draft an agreement to reduce greenhouse gas emissions.

A fresh draft of a UN climate deal released Wednesday offers wide-ranging options to raise funding for poorer countries, signalling that tough negotiations remain at the COP29 talks in Baku.

A draft UN climate deal called Wednesday for the world to transition away from fossil fuels, in a last-ditch bid to break a deadlock between nations seeking a phase-out from oil, gas and coal and Saudi-led crude producers.

A first formal draft of the UN climate summit deal in Egypt was published on Friday, yet again leaving out India's call for phase down of all fossil fuels and without any proposal on loss and damage funding.

The United Nations published a first draft of the climate deal on Thursday and it doesn't mention a phase down of all fossil fuels, a proposal that was put forward by India.

The British hosts of the COP26 UNclimate conference in Glasgow have proposed that countries raise their ambitions to slash greenhouse gas emissions by next year in a draft political decision that will be negotiated over the next three days.

India today welcomed the final draft of an ambitious climate deal as "balanced" and said its concerns have been taken care of in the document.

French President Francois Hollande was expected to attend the unveiling today of a planned final draft of a UN pact to tame global warming, following marathon negotiations in the northern outskirts of Paris.

The years-long quest for a universal pact to avert catastrophic climate change neared the finish line today with conference host France announcing that the final draft had been completed in the early hours of the morning.

Differences on key issues like emission norms and funding persisted but the climate change conference decided to sit one extra day on Saturday to wrap up a deal on a draft that showed progress on other crucial aspects.

Raising hopes of a landmark climate deal, negotiators today unveiled a new shorter draft incorporating major progress as well as the differences, two days ahead of the deadline for the United Nations (UN) accord to curb greenhouse gas emissions.

Negotiators at the climate change summit on Thursday unveiled a new draft deal on which there was still no agreement even as India sought global support for bringing down the cost of renewable power to reduce reliance on coal.

World leaders have vowed to seek a comprehensive climate deal at an upcoming UN conference in Paris, a draft statement seen by AFP said today.

South Africa on Monday criticised a draft United Nations accord on fighting climate change as a form of "apartheid" against developing nations.

Almost 200 countries agreed a draft text for a deal to fight climate change on Friday, but put off hard choices about narrowing down a vast range of options for limiting a damaging rise in temperatures.

UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon said on Thursday that he will travel to the Climate Conference in Peru next week and is hopeful that delegates will draft an agreement to reduce greenhouse gas emissions.