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PARIS – The Canadian delegation remains optimistic a deal can be reached at the climate-change conference in Paris with today’s deadline being extended by a day.
Federal Environment Minister Catherine McKenna says in a statement she is encouraged as talks continue after marathon negotiations overnight and into this morning.
In a statement emailed to reporters, McKenna said there was “good co-operation” on issues considered a priority for Canada.
She is expressing satisfaction that the latest draft contains a commitment to limit temperature rise to “well below 2 degrees Celsius” and “pursuing efforts to limit increase to 1.5 degrees.”
Negotiators from more than 190 countries are aiming at something that’s never been done: agreeing for all countries to reduce man-made carbon emissions and co-operating to adapt to rising seas and increasingly extreme weather caused by human activity.
UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon said today that negotiators are still in disagreement over how far-reaching the accord should be and who should pay for damages wrought by global warming.
