PARIS (Sputnik) — US negotiators took a non-constructive stance on the financial issues of the comprehensive Climate Change Agreement, a senior policy analyst at nonprofit ActionAid USA said Saturday.
"One of the things that the US negotiators have put on the table this week on finance is the language that places no special obligation on the US or developed countries to provide finance. That is clearly not a constructive position, it’s not in the spirit of what the [US] president said on Monday," Brandon Wu from ActionAid USA, an observer at the UN Climate Change Conference in the French capital, told reporters.
On Monday, US President Barack Obama told the Paris climate summit that the US government had launched an initiative involving 28 major companies from all over the world to invent and popularize new clean energy technologies globally.
The draft text of the Paris Climate Agreement has already been prepared by the negotiators and will be presented to the ministers on Monday.
