Europe toned down a clash with the United States over 2020 climate goals on the final day of U.N. talks in Bali on Friday, raising hopes of a deal to start negotiations on a new global warming treaty.
“I think that the situation is good, the climate in the climate conference is good, that we will have success in the end,” German Environment Minister Sigmar Gabriel said in a shift to conciliation with Washington after confrontation on Thursday.
“All parties are willing to be flexible, to search for a compromise,” he said of Europe’s past insistence that Bali should set tough 2020 guidelines for greenhouse gas cuts, despite opposition from Washington on setting goals.
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