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COP26 President Alok Sharma urges delegates to accept a draft summit decision, saying the "balanced" deal at the UN climate talks "really moves things forward for everyone". IMAGES AND SOUNDBITE
The European Union's climate chief expresses disappointment over a proposed deal at the COP28 summit in Dubai that fell short of calling for a phase-out of fossil fuels. "There are a couple of good things in there, but overall it is clearly insufficient and not adequate to addressing the problem we are here to address," EU climate commissioner Wopke Hoekstra tells reporters. The United States, European Union and low-lying island nations have pressed for the final deal to include language on winding down the use of fossil fuels. SOUNDBITE
After 11 days of negotiations at the climate summit in Paris, a slimmer but still-troubled draft of a global climate agreement is released. Deborah Lutterbeck reports.
The United Arab Emirates, host of the COP28 climate summit, says it will seek consensus with a new draft deal after wide criticism of language on fossil fuels. SOUNDBITE
"The European Union and France will not accept any backtracking on the Paris and Glasgow agreements," says French Energy Transition Minister, Agnes Pannier-Runacher, as gridlocked UN climate talks in Sharm el Sheikh went deep into the night with key sticking points over funding for countries wracked by climate disasters and ambition in tackling global warming. SOUNDBITE
UN chief Antonio Guterres urges divided nations holding climate talks at COP27 in Egypt's Sharm el Sheikh to agree on an "ambitious" deal to cover losses suffered by vulnerable nations hammered by natural disasters. SOUNDBITE
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