At-risk nations to make case at UN climate summit

– ‘Serious solutions, not tricks’ –

The UN’s General Assembly chief Maria Espinosa said the choice between the climate or jobs was false.

“Societies need to adapt, they need to understand, otherwise we will be in deep trouble, what is at stake now is the very survival of human kind and of the planet,” she told AFP.

Poland has already come in for criticism after it announced three state-run coal companies were sponsoring the two-week negotiations.

Patti Lynn, executive director of the Corporate Accountability campaign group, called for nations to agree to the global greenhouse gas drawdown upon which the fate of the Paris agreement now rests.

“We need serious solutions from serious leaders, not dangerous schemes and political tricks aimed to keep big polluters polluting,” she said.