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UN climate change chief Christiana Figueres applauded progress towards an international emissions deal yesterday.
Speaking during a visit to Australia, she said that improvement in the efficiency of renewable energy was one of several factors that had led to “a very changed political environment” since the Copenhagen summit in 2009.
As a result, countries were ahead of schedule in negotiating an agreement on curbing greenhouse gases that could be adopted at a Paris meeting in December.
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