French Foreign Minister and president of the COP21 Laurent Fabius will chair the Paris Committee meeting at 11:30 am (1030 GMT) and present a final version of the text for Paris agreement on climate change.
The Paris Committee meeting, initially scheduled for 9:00 am (0800 GMT), is postponed to 11:30 am, the presidency announced early Saturday morning. Ministers and negotiators from the 196 Parties of the U.N. Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) are expected to receive the final version of the text for the Paris agreement in U.N. official languages.
On Friday night, Fabius said, "all the conditions are ripe to reach a universal and ambitious agreement." The ministers and negotiators have been working since Monday to reach a final Paris agreement on climate change.
According to Fabius, the document he is to present later Saturday will be "as ambitious and balanced as possible." He also called on ministers and negotiators from the 196 Parties to have the "spirit of compromise" in order to achieve the "ultimate goal to simply allow the humanity to live decently."
Secretary General of the United Nations Ban Ki-moon on Friday also called on negotiators and ministers to reach a final outcome the Paris climate talks. "As secretary general of the United Nations, I'm urging the negotiators to make their decision, based on global vision," he said, adding that "this is not the moment of talking about national perspectives."
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