Officials from nearly 200 countries taking part in a UN climate change conference in Poland have yet to agree on rules to cut pollution after Brazil made new demands at the last minute.
After two weeks of intense negotiations in the Polish city of Katowice, officials today appeared to be close to reaching an agreement on the rules for implementing the 2015 Paris Agreement on climate change to deal with the common threat of global warming, according to the Associated Press.
Negotiators have reached a draft agreement that sets out most of the conditions under which countries must report their levels of greenhouse gas emissions and activities to reduce them.
The Paris Climate Agreement set a goal to prevent global temperatures from rising by more than two degrees Celsius, and if possible by more than 1,5 degrees, by the end of the century.
However, the rules remain to be worked out further.
Participants at the conference in Katowice were supposed to specify how countries will report on their emissions of greenhouse gases, a key factor contributing to global warming.
Poor countries have asked for guarantees that they will receive financial assistance to reduce emissions of these gases, to adapt to inevitable changes such as sea level rise, and to compensate for the damage that has already occurred.
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