French climate ambassador concerned over slow progress of Paris draft for negotiations

France wants to see serious progress by October on text for a new deal on global warming, says Laurence Tubiana

France's top climate ambassador has said she is very concerned at the slow rate of progress on a negotiating text that will form the basis of a new international deal on global warming in Paris later this year.

But Laurence Tubiana also said that negotiators from nearly 200 countries were making headway on the document, and made clear that the French government wanted to see serious progress on the text by October.