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Added on the 20/11/2022 08:46:50 - Copyright : Euronews EN
UN climate talks into extra time as no consensus on key issues such as funds for loss and damage suffered by poorer countries hit by extreme weather.
Janos Pasztor was appointed in January as UN Assistant Secretary-General on Climate Change with the task of shepherding a global deal on climate change in Paris at the end of the year.
Scientists, rights advocates, and delegates from nearly 200 countries gather in Canada for the COP15 Biodiversity summit as UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres said, "humanity's war on nature is ultimately a war on ourselves".
Foreign ministry spokesperson Mao Ning says China - the world's biggest polluter - welcomes a deal struck at the United Nations' landmark COP27 climate summit in Egypt, but warns that there was still a "long way to go" for global cooperation in curbing rising temperatures.
For the first time, the nations of the world have decided to help pay for the damage an overheating world is inflicting on poor countries.