“There is a draft agreement,” the source said. “It is being translated. For it to become a deal, it would have to be adopted.”
The draft, completed after late-night negotiations, is being translated from English into the U.N.’s five other official languages and will be presented at a special meeting of international delegates, according to two French officials.
The officials, not authorized to be publicly named in discussing the negotiations, would not elaborate on the contents of the draft. The last draft of the accord, released Thursday night, did not resolve several key issues, including how rich and developing countries would share the costs of fighting global warming.
If the 190 nations gathered in Paris agree to an accord, it would be a breakthrough after more than two decades of U.N. efforts to persuade governments to work together to reduce the man-made emissions that scientists say are warming the planet. Melting glaciers, rising seas and expanding deserts linked to such climate change are threatening populations around the world.
Negotiators emerged from meetings late Friday with French Foreign Minister Laurent Fabius, the host of the talks, amid an air of optimism that had been lacking just hours earlier.
“We are pretty much there,” Egyptian Environment Minister Khaled Fahmy, the chairman of a bloc of African countries, told The Associated Press late Friday. “There have been tremendous developments in the last hours. We are very close.”
A negotiator from a developed country was equally positive. “I think we got it,” said the negotiator, who was not authorized to speak publicly as the talks were not over yet.
In a bid to encourage agreement, French President Francois Hollande will join the special meeting Saturday and give a speech alongside U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon, to show “the importance of deciding and now adopting the draft text,” Hollande’s office said.
The talks were initially scheduled to end Friday and then Fabius wanted a final draft accord by early Saturday. U.N. climate conferences often run over time, because of the high stakes and widely differing demands and economic concerns of countries as diverse as the United States and tiny Pacific island nations.
This accord is the first time all countries are expected to pitch in - the previous emissions treaty, the 1997 Kyoto Protocol, only included rich countries and the U.S. never signed on.
After a final draft is presented, delegations are expected to spend a few hours studying it before it goes to a plenary meeting for eventual adoption.
(With Agencies)
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Organizers of climate talks in Paris have released details of a proposed landmark deal to curb climate change...
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The final draft agreement has been presented to international delegates in Paris after two weeks of talks.
If endorsed, the global climate pact would represent "a historic turning point", said Mr Fabius.
"It confirms our key objective, the objective which is vital, that of continuing to have a mean temperature well below two degrees and to endeavour to limit that increase to one point five degrees," he told countries.
French President Francois Hollande, who joined the meeting on Saturday, called the proposal unprecedented........BBC