TALKS ON KEY ISSUES

"The time for talking on loss and damage finance is over. We need action. No one can deny the scale of loss and damage we see around the globe."

— Antonio Guterres, UN Secretary General

1.5°c GOAL:

On limiting the global temperature rise, the early draft stresses "the importance of exerting all efforts...to limit the temperature increase to 1.5°C above pre-industrial levels". Committing to this goal has been resisted by some developed economics. COAL: The draft repeats the Glasgow deal's request for countries to accelerate measures towards the phase-down of unabated coal power, despite a proposal from India, and backed provisionally by the EU, to expand that to all fossil fuels.

UNRESOLVED ISSUES

● Calls for boosting a global goal for finance to help developing countries adapt to the impacts of a warmer world

● Plans for ratcheting up targets for cutting climate-warming emissions, especially by developed countries