LE BOURGET, France (AP) — The latest news related to the U.N. climate conference in Paris, which runs through Dec. 11. All times local:
12:15 p.m.
Climate conference organizers waiting to see the latest draft of the Paris climate accord will have to wait a bit longer: It’s been delayed a few hours.
A French official says the draft, expected for release at 1 p.m. (1200GMT), will not be released until at least 3 p.m. (1400GMT). The official says negotiators are working to “harmonize” one or two points in the text.
The official, not authorized to be publicly named speaking about the high-stakes negotiations, would not elaborate on which points.
It’s the first official delay in the negotiating process so far.
The two-week talks, the culmination of years of U.N. efforts to fight global warming, are scheduled to wrap up Friday. Sticking points have included how much of it should be legally binding, and what rich countries should do to help poor countries adapt and reduce climate change.
—By Angela Charlton
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9:45 a.m.
The Paris climate talks have a new visitor: a two-story-high, mechanically operated polar bear.
Activists from Greenpeace rolled the bear into the conference venue Wednesday morning. It’s among many scattered protest actions around the two weeks of talks.
“We want the bear to represent everyone hoping in the next 72 hours” for a robust climate deal, said Greenpeace’s Ben Stewart. The talks are scheduled to wrap up Friday night.
The same bear protested in front of the headquarters of Royal Dutch Shell as part of campaigns against oil drilling in the Arctic.
Activists are trying to call attention to melting glaciers, rising sea levels and other results of man-made emissions that contribute to global warming.
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