UN Climate Talks Fail To Break Deadlock

Talks aimed at smoothing the way for the first new global climate change accord in 18 years were heading towards stalemate on Friday after a week of bitter squabbles over a draft of the UN agreement.

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Five days of preparatory negotiations in the German city of Bonn scheduled to end on Friday were supposed to be the last chance for countries to clarify their positions before a two-week UN meeting in Paris in December that is due to finalise the deal. But the negotiations began running into overtime on Friday, in a jarring reminder of the difficulties lying ahead of the French meeting. --Pilita Clark, Financial Times, 23 October 2015

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