“The last thing anyone wants is for this COP to end without consensus,” Timmerman, Canadian Climate Minister Steven Guilbeault and Britain's Alok Sharma, who chaired last year’s talks in Glasgow, told the Egyptian foreign minister, according to Sharma’s office.
Climate negotiators in Egypt say they remain far from a deal
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The outgoing chair of the talks, British official Alok Sharma, said countries had made considerable progress at their last meeting in Glasgow in keeping alive the goal of limiting global warming to 2.7 degrees Fahrenheit by the end of the century.
World in crisis a grim backdrop for U.N. climate talks
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