The impromptu demonstration inside the conference centre earlier urging negotiators to stand with Africa
So while today is supposed to be the final day of the Durban negotiations, it has been surprisingly quiet all day. Not much new information has come out all day as ministers continue to meet behind closed doors and thrash out the deal. And it’s just been officially confirmed that talks will continue into Saturday.
I’ve been preparing all day for a long night at the negotiations, we’ve been predicting all week that the talks will go up to the wire, and that everyone will be working til the early hours.
However, we’ve just heard that there will be a final session of negotiations for today starting at midnight, which could well continue all night, then will again formally resume tomorrow morning.
This is the kind of rumour we hear every year at the UN climate negotiations- that the talks are going so slowly that they can’t possibly agree everything by the deadline. but it looks like this year it’s true, and all parties are in it for at least another day.
Will hopefully be able to give a full analysis of the outcomes tomorrow once the negotiations reach a conclusion. A day late is worth it if we get the deal we need.
