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Climate talks drill into details amid warnings
Negotiators tasked with saving Earth’s climate system embarked Tuesday on an 11-day race to overcome decades-long disputes as experts pointed to a towering threat from coal.
Negotiators tasked with saving Earth’s climate system embarked Tuesday on an 11-day race to overcome decades-long disputes as experts pointed to a towering threat from coal.
A day after world leaders pledged to tame global warming, bureaucrats from 195 nations scrambled to shape a labyrinthine 54-page text into a blueprint that can be approved by December 11.
The goal — endorsed ringingly by around 150 heads of state and government at the start of the talks on Monday — is to commit every nation to a post-2020 pact to roll back emissions of carbon gases.
