By CHARLES J. HANLEY
AP Special Correspondent
CANCUN, Mexico (AP) — Negotiators reported progress Thursday at the U.N. climate conference, setting the stage for agreements on a support fund for poorer nations and other steps easing global warming’s impact. The complex talks stretched deep into the night to try to meet a Friday deadline.
Once again this year the annual negotiations under the U.N. climate treaty won’t produce an overarching, legally binding deal to slash emissions of carbon dioxide and other global warming gases. From the start, the talks focused instead on a package of secondary items, including setting up the “green fund” for developing countries.
In that and in a half-dozen other areas, world environment ministers and other delegates were still haggling late Thursday over the wording of texts. But the conference president, Mexican Foreign Secretary Patricia Espinosa, sounded an upbeat note.
“The reports I have gotten are positive,” she told a late-night meeting of parties to the 193-nation treaty. “A broad and balanced package of decisions is, indeed, within our grasp.”
On the key issue of a green fund, Bangladesh’s state minister for the environment, Mohammed Hasan Mahmud, reported to the session that “we have narrowed down our gaps and there is convergence on establishing the fund,” but details remained to be resolved.
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