Negotiators at COP26 were due to meet again on Saturday, after failing to conclude a deal on the climate crisis threatening the planet on Friday.
A draft of the final deal of the COP26 was released early on Friday, which was supposed to be the final day of the two-week conference.
An agreement was supposed to be finalized by 6pm local time (18:00 GMT) on Friday.
But a final agreement on limiting global warming to 1.5 degrees Celsius remains stuck over issues from cutting off coal and other fossil fuels to financial support for poorer nations from rich countries.
The COP26 President, Alok Sharma, called on negotiators from the nearly 200 countries at the conference in the Scottish city of Glasgow, to come together and conclude an agreement.
“We have come a long way over the past two weeks and now we need that final injection of that ‘can-do’ spirit, which is present at this COP, so we get this shared endeavor over the line,” Sharma said.
The draft deal includes a requirement that countries set tougher climate commitments next year in an attempt to bridge the gap between their current targets and the more ambitious actions scientists say are needed to prevent disastrous levels of warming.
Lee White, Gabon’s minister for forests and climate change, said that talks were at a “bit of a stalemate,” as the United States, with support from the European Union, was holding back talks.
Gabon’s official added that there was a lack of trust between rich and poor nations over payments from rich countries to the poor for damage from the worst effects of global warming, reported Reuters.
Saudi Arabia, the world’s second-largest oil producer and considered among the nations most resistant to strong wording on fossil fuels, said the latest draft was “workable”.
A final deal will require the unanimous consent of the nearly 200 countries that signed the Paris accord.
COP26 began on October 31 amid activists and scientists’ warnings that not enough was being done to curb global warming.
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