Chief EU negotiator Michel Barnier pre-empted publication of the 120 -
page draft treaty with the promise that its 168 paragraphs would contain no surprises.
Not exact matches
The latest such informal
treaty text to speed around the halls at the Bella Center was the most important — a six -
page partial
draft summarizing the work of what's called the Ad - Hoc Working Group on Long Term Cooperative Action under the Convention (which basically means an unofficial compilation of the views of all of 192 countries that have signed onto the original 1992 climate
treaty, which serves as a foundation for whatever comes next).
By Friday, the
draft negotiating text had swelled to 60
pages, threatening a reprise of the build - up to the chaotic Copenhagen Summit in 2009, when divisions between major emitters meant world leaders had no workable
draft to agree as a climate
treaty.