Cop25 without agreement, talks continue

(ANSA) - MADRID, DECEMBER 15 - The climate talks at Cop 25 in Madrid have just entered their 'second supplementary time': they were to finish Friday but no agreement has yet been reached, and they have now entered, on Sunday, their fourteenth day. Officials from nearly 200 countries failed to overcome their different points of view on any key points. Thus, late on Saturday, the president of the conference, Chilean Environment Minister Carolina Schmidt, told the already exhausted delegates to return to meet at 1.30 am to review the new agreements drawn up by her team.
"Things are coming to fruition," he said before returning to the hall. But representatives of developing countries and environmental groups, on the other hand, said that the re-circulated sketches even risked canceling or blocking the commitments made in the 2015 Paris agreement, accentuating the gap between what scientists require and what negotiators are willing to do to offer.