Le Bourget (France): French and UN officials completed an edit early on Saturday of the final draft to be presented to ministers for adoption, conference host France said, after nearly two weeks of tough haggling for a climate rescue pact.
"We have a text to present," an official in the office of Foreign Minister Laurent Fabius, who presides over the talks, said.
After translation into the UN's six official languages, the document will be presented to ministers at 11.30 am (1030 GMT), nearly 16 hours after the conference had been scheduled to close.
Earlier, the last stumbling blocks were over money, specifically how to structure hundreds of billions of dollars in funding from rich nations to poor ones to help them adapt to climate change. "Evidently, not everyone will obtain 100 percent of what they are asking," French Foreign Minister Laurent Fabius told journalists as he emerged from discussions late on Friday.
"When there are 196 parties on such a complex subject, if everyone demands 100 percent, each and everyone will obtain zero percent," he said. "We must have a spirit of compromise", he added.
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