This will be heart-warming news to activists, nongovernmental groups and religious leaders who have criticised the summit for becoming bogged down in political wrangling.
Ms Figueres said an ad hoc working group on the European Union's proposal for a process that could lead some of the almost 200 nations gathered at COP-17 to thrash out a new deal on warding off damaging climate change was narrowing down options from which heads of state and ministers who arrived on Monday and Tuesday could choose.
A big problem, however, is that the second commitment period to the world's first and only treaty on reducing the emission of greenhouse gases is set to cover only 10%-15% of total global emissions.
The EU says this is not enough and that more nations need to come to the party.
The world's two largest greenhouse gas emitters, China (responsible for 23,3% of total emissions) and the US (18,1%), remain in the talks, but neither wants to sign up to a second commitment period if the other does not do so too. Read the full report here.
Source: Sue Blaine and Roy Downing, Business Day.
