Bonn climate talks fail to narrow rich-poor divide

"We now have a Party-owned text that is balanced and complete".

Following five days of negotiations a revised draft text for the Paris agreement was published. "None of us are dispensable", Giza Gaspar Martins, chair of the Least Developed Countries group said on the sidelines of a Chatham House event on Tuesday.

"The perception is that this is an environmental issue, it's for treehuggers, and hardheaded business people either don't care about it, or see it as a conflict with their bottom lines", he said.

The G20 Heads of State will meet in Turkey in mid-November, followed by the Heads of State meeting of the Commonwealth in Malta just before the Paris Summit opens. At its most ambitious, and driven by certain developing countries, the long-term goal of the agreement is for zero emissions by 2050, with a ceiling for peak emissions in 2030 and for global warming to be capped at 1.5C°. "The insurance sector is perhaps ready for a few natural disasters, but it it's not ready for climate change, which is a systemic threat".

Lead author Malte Meinshausen of the University of Melbourne said that if either the European Union or the USA would pioneer and set a benchmark for climate action by others, the negotiation logjam about fair burden sharing could be broken. "This unprecedented breadth and depth of response reflects the increasing recognition that there is an unparalleled opportunity to achieve resilient, low-emission, sustainable development at national level". Instead, she said, it will need to include the tools to ratchet up emissions cuts in the future.

Pakistan is set to miss submission deadline for its intended nationally determined contributions (INDCs) as the prime minister has yet to approve its final draft.

"Much time has been lost in the process and this is going to make arriving at a Global Climate Change Agreement in Paris even more challenging", said Chandra Bhushan, Deputy Director General, Centre for Science and Environment (CSE).

Both India and Africa also welcomed that COP22 on Climate Change will be held on African soil in Marrakesh, Morocco in 2016 and agreed to work together to ensure that the concerns of developing countries are met.

Charles has been a strong advocate of taking action to protect the environment for many years.

U.S. Special Envoy for Climate Change Todd Stern will visit Brazil and Cuba this week in order to discuss climate change initiatives leading up to the two-week United Nations Climate Change Conference (COP21) in Paris, which kicks off November 30.

All of the world's developed countries and the biggest developing countries agreed - for the first time - to limits on their greenhouse gas emissions.

Nozipho Mxakato-Diseko, from South Africa, speaking on behalf of more than 130 developing countries, including China, told delegates at the talks in Germany that rich countries had be ready to provide far more financial assistance to help poorer nations, which were already having to deal with climate change.

Hoping for collective wisdom to prevail, Javadekar drew attention to the fact that India and the developing world have done more than their capacity in committing to INDCs.