Kerry meets ministers from Brazil, India as deadline looms for

While annual United Nations climate meetings nearly always run into overtime, the abrupt announcement came as some officials and observers also said that wee-hours discussions had not run as smoothly as hoped.

Countries will then make rapid cuts to as to reach “greenhouse gas emissions neutrality” in the second half of this century.

More than 190 nations gathered in Paris to disciss a possible new global agreement on climate change.

Climate vulnerable countries are calling for a tougher target of only 1.5 degrees Celsius in average temperatures above pre-industrial levels at the climate talks, arguing the goal of 2 degrees Celsius may not be sufficient to avert disaster.

He said the document will not address the problem of climate change but that it will provide the means to do so and the means to go for more ambitious change. Brackets can technically be added back to any part of the text, but they rarely return once the host removes them.

“Is time to come to an agreement”, Fabius said. For the U.S., the route to 1.5C is never-ending poverty for some countries to the world.

“If they want to be responsible for a failure in Paris, now they have to say it out loud”.

“The text is 80 per cent there”, Ms Bishop said.

“It was a very long night of work, a very intense night” he said of Wednesday night’s efforts.

The new deal stressed developed countries “should” take the lead on greenhouse gas cuts, but also encouraged all countries to adopt tougher economy-wide emission cuts “over time”, in light of circumstances. (AP Photo/Christophe Ena)LE BOURGET, France: Negotiators from China, the USA and other nations haggled into the early morning Friday over how to share the burden of fighting climate change and paying for a trillion-dollar transition to clean energy on a global scale.

The draft language said countries would commit to keeping temperature rises “well below 2 degrees Celsius” and “pursue efforts to limit the temperature increase to 1.5 degrees”.

“The Philippines would like to highlight that financial flows should be consistent with the pathway toward low greenhouse gas emissions and climate resilient development”, he said. A final draft of the proposed climate deal will thereafter be released late on Friday.

Many activist groups want the Paris accord to call for an end to fossil fuel use in the long term and to back firm pledges by rich countries to help poor countries pay for future damages caused by climate change.

Little solid news on the progress of negotiations has surfaced over the duration of the COP21 talks, but the latest draft agreement has now been released.

Steiner said he thinks the final issue will be differentiation between rich and poor nations, calling it “one of the defining principles of where the convention began its journey”.

After an agonising six-hour delay, the COP21 climate change conference in Paris has taken a giant leap forward, with the production of a final draft text that contains fewer bracketed text (indicating disagreements) and stricter global warming limits than its predecessors.

Javadekar refuted suggestions that there has been any pressure on India to agree to a deal.

“If nationally and internationally we are talking about reduction of carbon emissions, in our case, we have coal-fired plants and they produce lots of carbon”, says Mahmood. “I’m getting a very strong sense from the delegations that I speak to Australia, while not actively undermining the negotiations, they are an obstacle to achieving a deal”, he told AAP.