The five-day session is the last formal parlay before
heads of states and ministers gather in the French capital to seal a
deal to beat back the threat of global warming and help poor nations
cope with its impacts.
Today will be the first
opportunity for rank-and-file negotiators to weigh in on a new draft
whittled down from 80 pages to 20 by two senior diplomats — one from
Algeria, the other from the United States — leading the process.
Reactions
from developing nations and veteran analysts of the talks, now in their
third decade, suggest that sparks will fly at the opening session.
Many
countries are likely to insist that deleted passages be restored before
the arduous job of line-by-line revisions can even begin.
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