Kerry meets with ministers from Brazil, India

They staged a protest at the site of the conference against the weaknesses in the latest draft agreement on Wednesday evening.

“What would be very hard is to have unlimited liability that future generations, future Canadians, would have to take on”, she said in Thursday’s interview. The draft is “still too heavy”. If the negotiations don’t start yielding the ambition and equity the world needs, we may see a whole new level of dissent from those gathered in Paris.

Protester Kyle Gracey said “it is still not enough”.

The conference, with some 25,000 delegates from governments, businesses and NGOs, takes place amid unabated and often surreal public debate in many nations, especially the USA, over whether temperatures are rising, whether human activity is to blame, and whether anything can or should be done about it despite a large consensus among scientists that speaks for action.

What major unresolved issues still need to be hashed out. Both the developed and developing countries are influenced adversely by the climate change in different degrees, such as global warming, sea level rise and frequent extreme weather.

“We need beyond the below 2-degree target; we need to have a recognition of 1.5 degrees in the agreement and we need a very strong and balanced transparency article so everybody knows what we are all doing. I think it’s a travesty but it is not a surprise”. “I am extremely happy to see the U.S. with us”. “We hear the voice of the great granddaughter, saying climate justice now”.

Later on Wednesday, negotiators released a new draft text of a potential final climate agreement. The talks are scheduled to end Friday.

As a matter of policy, the Republican Party obstructs any serious effort to prevent catastrophic climate change.

It also doesn’t spell out the long-term goal of the accord – whether it is to remove carbon emissions from the economy altogether or just reduce them.

This 29-page document will be the basis for the furious negotiations of the next few days. “However, the operational part of the agreement is much weaker and this is more likely to remain”, says Mrs Hickey.

On finance, it is deeply disappointing that on the one hand developed countries are not fulfilling their obligations and on the other hand, they are trying to shift their responsibilities to developing countries themselves. That’s one of the sticking points in the Paris talks, which run through Friday.

“Paris is known as the City of Light”.

The United States and other developed nations have already agreed to jointly mobilise more than $100 billion per year by 2020 for developing countries.

That means there will have to be a system to ratchet up action, but it is poorly defined.

It was not immediately clear whether the move would yield a breakthrough in the talks.

Discussing the EU announcement of the “high ambition coalition” of over 100 countries including the US, Mexico and many developing countries, she added, “The EU can’t hide behind alliances – it must commit to its fair share of emissions cuts and finance”. At the top is a way to regularly ratchet up countries’ targets every five years, which Marshall Islands Foreign Minister Tony de Brum called “the beating heart of the Paris agreement”.

The top US diplomat was working the phones as he attended a global climate summit outside Paris.

Tired ministers tasked with rescuing mankind from catastrophic climate change struggled Thursday to overcome a rich-poor divide, with little more than 24 hours left to reach a deal.

Kerry has made combating climate change a priority since he became secretary of state.

He praised work of indigenous people “who can report what’s really going on” with the planet’s climate, thanks to NGOs providing them drone technology and cameras to post images and data online. I’m not convinced diplomatic peer pressure will resolve the vast energy and environment challenges shaping much of the global dialogue in the 21st century.

Many other ministers echoed their nations’ long-held positions. Please credit the Thomson Reuters Foundation, the charitable arm of Thomson Reuters, that covers humanitarian news, women’s rights, trafficking, corruption and climate change.

He said the conflict between the draft agreement’s aspirations and it’s actual provisions is “like announcing that you’re giving up smoking, except that you’re also stopping by the Costco on the way home to get 70 cartons”.

A French official says the draft, expected for release at 1 p.m. (1200 GMT), will not be released until at least 3 p.m. (1400 GMT).