SHARM EL-SHEIKH, Egypt (AP) ā New Zealandās climate minister has said a draft of the final document circulated by the presidency āhas been received quite poorly by pretty much everybody,ā adding that delegations are going into another round of talks.
Speaking to reporters, James Shaw called the draft āentirely unsatisfactory.ā
He added that the proposal āabandons really any hope of achieving 1.5 (degrees Celsius, 2.7 degrees Fahrenheit),ā referring to the warming limit agreed at the Paris agreement back in 2015.
He said parties will continue to work on the issue as well as look to reach consensus on a loss and damage fund for developing nations who are suffering from the impacts of climate change.
āEverybody wants an outcome on loss and damage and everybody wants to keep 1.5 alive. So thatās what weāre going to keep doing,ā he said.
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German Foreign Minister Annalena Baerbock says that responsibility for the fat of the U.N. climate talks ānow lies in the hands of the Egyptian COP presidency.ā
She said the European Union had made clear overnight that āwe will not sign a paper here that diverges significantly from the 1.5 C path, that would bury the goal of 1.5 degrees.ā
āIf these climate conferences set us back then we wouldnāt have needed to travel here in the first place,ā she said.
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