The COP 25 UN climate conference in Madrid remained deadlocked on Sunday, more than 24 hours after the two-week talks had been scheduled to end.
The Chilean official leading UN climate negotiations has appealed to delegates to show flexibility, as they struggle to reach agreement on crucial measures needed to tackle climate change.
As talks continue in Madrid, Carolina Schmidt said a deal was almost there but the outcome needed to be ambitious.
The situation was unprecedented since talks began in 1991, said Alden Meyer from the Union of Concerned Scientists.
Negotiations to overcome several rifts over how to tackle the climate crisis — and who should pay for it — continued Saturday and Sunday, amid concerns they may end in failure.
Several countries — wealthy, emerging and poor nations — objected to a draft final text unveiled by host Chile in a botched attempt to find common ground.
The European Union and small island states vulnerable to climate change are pushing for stronger commitments to cut those emissions. Some of the biggest polluters, including the United States, Brazil and India, say they see no need to change their current plans.
Representatives from 200 nations have been meeting in the Spanish capital to finalize the rulebook for the 2015 Paris climate accord, which calls for limiting global temperature rises to “well below” 2 degrees Celsius. The talks were moved to Madrid because of ongoing unrest in the Latin American country.
