Progress made on reaching climate change deal at UN Paris conference

Progress has been made towards reaching a climate change deal at a UN conference in Paris next month, the French government has said.

Foreign minister Laurent Fabius said senior officials from 70 countries have agreed on the principle of a mechanism to reassess the countries’ emission pledges every five years in order to improve them.

He said: “There is still significant work to be done but success is indispensable.”