UN climate report talks go into overtime as governments oppose firm language on fossil fuels
The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change's three-part report is published once every six or seven years. Dozens of climate scientists from around the world, who are experts in their fields, had expected to finalize a summary of the third and final section on Friday and publish it Monday morning. Instead they negotiated all weekend amid a slew of objections from governments to its contents.
The outstanding issues were so divisive that negotiators were placed in breakout groups to try to address them late Sunday.The source told CNN that the enormous pressure to meet the moment of the mounting climate crisis had made talks tense and was the reason for the delay.
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