Saturday, December 10, 2011

More from Durban planet-healers

Twitter / @jrwiese: The state of things on hou ... 

The state of things on hour 35 of the last day of

Twitter / @CHedegaardEU: Finally we arr getting to ...

Finally we arr getting to the crunch issues. And making progress. The time pressure is almost physically felt in the room. Nerve-breaking!

Factbox: Countries to consider tiny steps in climate draft | Reuters

(Reuters) - Countries would consider on Saturday small, incremental progress in a draft paper on cutting carbon emissions and preparing for a warmer world, at a climate conference in Durban. 

That may be the only outcome of the U.N.-backed conference which over-ran on Saturday, as separately negotiators struggled on bigger commitments to agree in future a global climate deal, to extend the existing, limited Kyoto Protocol, and to launch a Green Climate Fund.

...FINANCE

 The text simply proposed more work on how to raise funds to help the developing world cut greenhouse gas emissions and adapt to future climate change.

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