Climate change talks are moving at 'snail's pace', says UN chief
Negotiations for a deal to fight climate change were moving at a "snail's pace", the United Nations chief, Ban Ki-Moon, told a high-level this week.
Yesterday's promise from China - the world's biggest carbon polluter - to peak carbon emissions "by around 2030" could inject some much-needed optimism into the talks.
But the UN and other leaders warned time was running out to reach a strong climate change deal in Paris at the end of the year.
Five months before the critical gathering, Ban said talks were bogged down, and that negotiators faced many challenges and controversies. "The negotiation pace is too slow, far too slow," Ban told reporters. "It is moving at a snail's pace."He noted there were only 10 formal days of negotiation left before Paris.
After the last round of talks, in Bonn earlier this month, the 193 countries at the table were left far apart on the contours of the deal.
