French Environment Minister - "UN Climate Talks Are Completely Inadequate - Everyone Knows It"

Ségolène Royal has slammed UN climate talks as painfully "inadequate," in the face of the urgency of climate change. Talks to hammer out a historic deal on limiting greenhouse gas emissions, resumed on Monday, ahead of crunch talks in Paris later this year. Meanwhile, French Foreign Minister Laurent Fabius says he's confident of striking an early agreement.

"UN climate talks are completely inadequate... " It was with these words that France's Ecology minister Ségolène Royal put a damper on a ten-day climate conference, which resumed in Bonn on Monday. "Everyone knows it, but the weight of UN negotiations is such that we carry on as if nothing was wrong," she said regrettably, ruling out the possibility of a deal being reached to reduce gas emissions to below 2C by December, when crunch talks are due to take place in Paris.

"I'm not saying we should stop the UN procedure," Royal explained, "but what's needed is a document regrouping all of the commitments of the most industrialised countries, from the EU notably, and responses from those countries who don't agree to find out why."

The race to map out a deal that would save the Earth's climate from potentially irreversible damage, is hinging on an 80-page draft text of national viewpoints, that needs to be trimmed down into something manageable, with a consensus.

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