"The text has extremes but it also has alternatives for a very solid and ambitious outcome. So what we will be doing in the coming days at the ministerial level is to engage in order to find a way to find the compromises for a balanced, but ambitious package," Bardram said.
The fact that participating countries had to submit their own Intended Nationally Determined Contributions (INDC), before COP21 even opened, in which they outlined feasible greenhouse gas emissions reductions, was the greatest indication of participants' determination to reach a deal, according to Bardram. "We are moving from the action by few, to action by all. And we see great hope in it," she said.
The climate summit in Paris, running between November 30 and December 11, is a meeting of the Kyoto Protocol parties. Attended by over 130 world leaders and top diplomats, the summit is set to achieve a legally binding emissions reduction agreement.
