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It's crunch time for climate negotiators in Paris
Climate finance and how to define goal for phasing out fossil fuels remain hurdles
Published Tue, Dec 1, 2015 · 09:50 PM
Paris
WITH encouragement from 150 world leaders ringing in their ears, government negotiators in Paris were on Tuesday left to turn the rhetoric into reality and agree on a draft text of a global deal to slow climate change.
US President Barack Obama and Chinese President Xi Jinping made common cause on Monday with other countries to stress the urgency of an agreement to slow a rise in global temperatures blamed for causing floods, heatwaves and rising sea levels.
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