The European Union's climate envoy Wopke Hoekstra describes the draft deal at the deadlocked UN COP29 summit in Azerbijan as "unacceptable", with just one day left to go on the conference's agenda.
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00:00But let me reiterate the overall sense that we have as a constituency, as a European Union.
00:09And as I said here in the press conference, I'm not going to sugarcoat this, the text
00:15as it now stands is clearly unacceptable.
00:19If you look at the part on mitigation, it clearly did not do what we promised ourselves.
00:28We cannot accept the view that apparently for some the previous COP did not happen.
00:34What we had on our agenda was not just to restate the EU consensus, but actually to
00:40enhance that and to operationalize that.
00:44And this text is actually going in the opposite direction.
00:49So I'm sorry to say, but there is a lot of work ahead of us for the presidency, for all
00:56parties involved, but I'm sure there is not a single ambitious country who thinks this
01:02is nearly good enough.