GLASGOW — Negotiators from 200 countries appeared to be closing in on an agreement aimed at setting conditions to prevent dangerous levels of global warming late Saturday, but not without tension over how to pay countries that are least responsible for the problem but suffering irreparable harms. John Kerry, the U.S. climate envoy, said “If it has been a good negotiation, all the parties are uncomfortable. And this has been, I think, a good negotiation. By tradition, all countries must agree on language; if any one objects, the talks deadlock. Frans Timmermans, vice president of the European Union, urged negotiators to accept the third version and said he feared “stumbling in this marathon a few meters short of the finish line.”

Source: International New York Times November 13, 2021 19:27 UTC