France on Monday, June 1, urged to resume talks for a UN climate pact, calling for a “pre-agreement” to be forged weeks before a crucial conference in Paris in December that must seal the final deal. The Bonn talks will focus on trimming an 80-page text containing national viewpoints on climate issues. The end goal is a post-2020 deal to save Earth’s climate from potentially catastrophic damage from heat-trapping fossil-fuel emissions, looking at limiting warming to no more than two degrees Celsius (3.6 degrees Fahrenheit) over pre-industrial levels. The pact would commit the world community to rolling back emissions and muster financial help for poor countries vulnerable to natural disasters. But the process is scarred by memories of the last time the UN tried to forge an ambitious climate deal — the 2009 summit in Copenhagen that ended in deadlock.
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