Glasgow: Alok Sharma, the President of the United Nations Climate Change Conference in Glasgow, said that he expects the talks to last until Saturday afternoon. In a statement, Sharma, president of the 26th session of the Conference of the Parties (COP26) to the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change, said, "I envisage formal plenary meetings in the afternoon to take resolutions and finish the conference on Saturday." "There will be no further plenary meeting this evening in order to avoid delaying ongoing consultations," he said.
The COP26 President said that "a short informal plenary meeting in the morning" on Saturday will be held. Negotiators from almost 200 countries and territories are working overtime to reach an agreement on climate change. Sharma cancelled a press conference on Friday afternoon as the talks came down to the wire.
Originally, the two-week COP26 was supposed to expire on Friday. Developed countries are being pushed to go beyond lip service when it comes to combating climate change. Poor countries urged wealthy countries to keep their promises of financial aid to the developing world in the battle against climate change.
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