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Ministers seek convergence on climate rescue pact

– Stronger awareness –

France’s top diplomat Laurent Fabius, who will preside over the year-end summit, said Saturday there were “objective reasons” for anticipating success.

Chiefly, “the phenomenon (of climate change) has strengthened, and awareness along with it,” he told Europe1 radio.

The preparatory meeting from Sunday to Tuesday brings together ministers of all the negotiating blocs, and includes top envoys from major carbon emitters China, the United States, the European Union, India, and Brazil.

It is the third such ministerial round in Paris this year, and will tackle make-or-break issues such as burden-sharing for slashing emissions and climate finance.

The Paris summit will open on November 30 with speeches by world leaders meant to inject political impetus for the final round of talks by climate envoys and their ministers, who must ink the end product.

The overarching goal is a global pact on curbing emissions to limit average Earth warming to two degrees Celsius (3.6 degrees Fahrenheit) over pre-Industrial Revolution levels.

This week, the UN Environment Programme said national pledges to curb greenhouse gas emissions – even if respected to the full – would yield only a third of the cuts needed by 2030, and set a course for 3C of warming or more.

Last month, scientists said the first nine months of 2015 had been the hottest on record worldwide.

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Much work lies ahead outside the 195-nation UN climate forum, including a G20 summit in Turkey this month where the thorny issue of climate finance will be discussed.

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