Paris, Dec 13: Organisers of the climate talks in Paris say a final draft text has been reached after nearly two weeks of intensive negotiations.
An official in the office of French Foreign Minister Laurent Fabius told the AFP news agency the draft would be presented to ministers at 10:30 GMT. No details of the proposed agreement have been released so far.The tentative deal was reached nearly 16 hours after the talks had been scheduled to close.”We have a text to present,” the official said, adding that the draft would be now translated into the UN’s six official languages.
Fabius, who has presided over the talks, had said earlier that the “conditions were never better” for a strong and ambitious agreement. Significant progress had been reported on a range of issues, with evidence of real compromise between the parties, the BBC’s environment correspondent Matt McGrath in Paris reported earlier.
Another major difficulty was transparency – richer countries want a single system of measuring, reporting and verifying the commitments countries make as part of this agreement.
