Agence France-Presse: France sought Monday to breathe life into talks for a UN climate pact, calling for a "pre-agreement" to be forged weeks before a crucial conference in Paris in December that must seal the final deal.
French Foreign Minister Laurent Fabius urged countries not to delay consensus until the last minute -- a problem that has bedevilled more than two decades of negotiations on Earth's climate problem.
"The goal is for us to reach a pre-agreement as early as October," said Fabius, who will steer the...