Negotiators at UN climate talks split over when and how to phaseout use oil, gas and coal
BELEM, Brazil (AP) — Delegates of the U.N. climate talks on Saturday worked to find common ground on a host of proposals, including a push by many nations to explicitly cite the cause of global warming: the burning of oil, gas and coal to power our world.
The annual talks are this year being held in Belem, a Brazilian city on the edge of the Amazon rainforest. They were scheduled to wrap up Friday, but negotiators blew past that deadline and it wasn’t clear when they may finish.
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