Climate Talks ‘Too Complicated,’ EU Says as UN Negotiations Slow

The European Union said it’s worried United Nations climate talks in Mexico are making slow progress and that ministers need to step up the pace of negotiations to get an agreement on limiting global warming this week.

“The texts are still much too long,” Connie Hedegaard, the European Commissioner in charge of climate policy, said in Cancun, Mexico, referring to UN documents published this weekend outlining possible goals for the meeting of 193 nations. “There are much too many options. They are still too complicated.”