U.N. climate efforts not good enough: French minister

[WorldNews]

Efforts spearheaded by the United Nations to reach a global deal to fight climate change are "inadequate", a French minister said on Monday in a sign of growing frustration before Paris hosts a major meeting later this year. Governments will try on Monday to streamline an 89-page draft text of a U.N. deal to fight climate change due to be agreed in the French capital in December, hoping to avoid the acrimony of the last failed attempt. "The U.N. negotiations are totally inadequate for the climate emergency we are facing," Environment Minister Segolene Royal said in an interview published in Le Monde.

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