UNITED NATIONS — Climate ministers and top negotiators from dozens of nations remain deadlocked over how to cut greenhouse gases less than three months before the next major international climate summit.
The U.N.’s top climate official, Christiana Figueres, told a high-level gathering Saturday that the key issues “are frankly in a deadlock” and the official negotiating text is bogged down by national interests.
The meeting here helped to “show that there are in fact areas, many areas, in which we can reach a significant agreement that would allow the possibility of initiating programs, projects and very concrete actions against climate change in all countries,” Mexican Foreign Minister Patricia Espinosa told AP. She will preside over the December summit in Cancun, where delegates from about 190 nations will seek to break the stalemate over a legally binding agreement on reducing emissions of carbon dioxide and other gases blamed for global warming. The Associated Press
