The Latest: EU executive says COP26 agreement a good start

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GLASGOW – The latest connected the COP26 climate talks successful Glasgow:

BRUSSELS — The caput of the European Union’s enforcement limb says Saturday’s statement astatine the U.N. clime league “gives america assurance that we tin supply a harmless and prosperous abstraction for humanity connected this planet,” but warns that “there is inactive hard enactment ahead.”

Ursula von der Leyen is the president of the European Commission, and she says that “there volition beryllium nary clip to relax.”

The EU's pb negotiator says the substance agreed “keeps live the Paris Agreement people of limiting planetary warming to 1.5 degrees Celsius."

Franz Timmermans adds that "it is simply a substance which acknowledges the needs of processing countries for clime finance, and sets retired a process to present connected those needs.”

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GLASGOW, Scotland — U.S. clime envoy John Kerry has expressed enactment for the draught clime statement nether information astatine the U.N. acme successful Glasgow.

Kerry told league participants connected Saturday that portion each state would beryllium uncomfortable with immoderate portion of a imaginable deal, “we each cognize the adage of negotiations: you can’t fto the cleanable beryllium the force of the good. And this is good. It is simply a almighty statement.”

He said clime alteration was an contented that allowed countries similar the United States and China to emergence supra disagreements connected different matters and travel unneurotic for the communal good.

He said: “Not everyone successful nationalist life...gets to marque choices astir beingness and death. Not everyone gets to marque choices that really impact an full planet. We present are privileged contiguous to bash precisely that.”

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GLASGOW, Scotland — India’s situation curate sought to artifact efforts to see references to phasing retired ember and fossil substance subsidies successful a woody projected astatine this year’s U.N. clime summit.

Bhupender Yadav told negotiators connected Saturday that determination was nary statement connected cardinal issues and blamed “unsustainable lifestyles and wasteful depletion patterns” successful affluent countries for causing planetary warming.

He said processing countries were “entitled to the liable usage of fossil fuels.”

European Union clime main Frans Timmermans responded soon aft by informing that negotiators were “at hazard of stumbling successful this marathon a mates of meters earlier reaching the decorativeness line.”

“For heaven’s sake, don’t termination this moment,” Timmermans said. “Please clasp this substance truthful that we bring anticipation to the hearts of our children and grandchildren.”

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GLASGOW, Scotland — Money is inactive the important constituent of disagreement betwixt affluent and mediocre nations and is delaying nations from a imaginable statement astatine the U.N. clime summit, according to the Maldives’ curate for environment, clime alteration and technology.

Small land nations person agelong pushed for an autarkic compensation mechanics for irreversible losses caused by clime change. But the existent connection astatine the talks successful Glasgow, Scotland, autumn abbreviated of what is needed to span the spread betwixt developed and processing worlds, Maldives curate Aminath Shauna said Saturday.

“I inactive person not recovered substance and connection that tin bring some parties unneurotic connected this issue.” she said.

The draught connection published successful the greeting said participating nations had decided to “establish dialogue” connected this contented of compensation for clime damages.

This is not capable urgency erstwhile hurricanes and floods are impacting indispensable services similar drinking h2o successful the Maldives, Shauna said.

But she besides acknowledged that the notation was a flimsy triumph that took a batch of enactment for galore years and truthful “we don’t privation it to beryllium removed entirely.”

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GLASGOW, Scotland -- The British authoritative chairing the U.N. clime talks successful Glasgow, Scotland says negotiators person arrived astatine a “moment of truth” for their children, grandchildren and the planet.

Alok Sharma said talks precocious Friday and during the time Saturday had made progress.

He said that “collectively our clime ambition and enactment to day person fallen abbreviated connected the promises made successful Paris” six years agone but the latest draught agreements offered tangible steps and milestones to get there.

Sharma urged countries to instrumentality a abbreviated interruption to formalize the proposals earlier reconvening aboriginal Saturday to walk them.

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GLASGOW, Scotland -- The seat of a radical of African negotiators astatine the U.N. clime talks successful Glasgow says helium thinks their concerns haven’t been heard by the developed world.

U.S. clime envoy John Kerry huddled with representatives from Africa and different parts of the processing satellite connected Saturday day to sermon proposals for a imaginable loss-and-damage money for mediocre nations deed by irreversible impacts of clime alteration and credits successful a carbon-trading market.

Lee White, the Gabonese wood and clime alteration curate who chairs the radical of African negotiators, told Egyptian representatives afterwards that the last-minute broadside league was "the archetypal existent treatment I’ve had...in a huddle with John Kerry with tons of radical lasting around.”

“You’ve seen the process due to the fact that you’re successful it,” White said successful remarks overheard by The Associated Press.

He said that processing nations would apt conscionable themselves to sermon the draught and "whether we tin unrecorded with the substance oregon not.” White says helium thinks the process of reaching a last statement volition request to spell beyond negotiators and impact ministers.

“It’s present political,” helium said.

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GLASGOW, Scotland — Last-minute smaller negotiations person delayed the larger radical of nations from taking up a imaginable statement astatine the U.N. clime talks successful Glasgow, Scotland.

Conference president Alok Sharma vowed that the negotiations volition extremity Saturday afternoon, a time aboriginal than scheduled, and effect successful “a balanced package.”

“A fig of parties are inactive wanting to person a treatment and resoluteness issues,” Sharma said much than 100 minutes aft a scheduled “stock-take” treatment of the astir caller drafts was expected to start, but hadn’t. “I anticipation we tin person immoderate resolutions earlier formally starting this plenary.”

Sharma called the latest proposals that negotiators spent the time poring implicit "collectively, a bundle that truly moves things guardant for everyone.”

Australian Environment Minister, Leonere Gewessler, said earlier Saturday: “We volition combat hard for a bully and ambitious result. We inactive person aggravated hours up of us.”

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GLASGOW, Scotland --- Several charities are offering to supply funds to kick-start a abstracted and autarkic mechanics for affluent countries to enactment susceptible nations from clime change.

The groups accidental successful a connection that they volition lend an archetypal $3 cardinal to commencement with for the “Glasgow Loss and Damage Facility”’ -- efficaciously a conveyance to springiness wealth to mediocre nations for irreversible damages from clime shocks.

This projected abstracted money is 1 of the important stumbling successful negotiations, with affluent nations opposing it.

The non-profit Children’s Investment Fund Foundation, the European Climate Foundation, the William and Flora Hewlett Foundation and others are inviting each nations and fiscal institutions to lend enactment to the fund.

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