DURBAN, South Africa, Dec. 10 (UPI) -- An international climate change summit in South Africa was extended Saturday in an effort to reach agreement on anti-global warming measures, officials said.
The representatives attending the annual U.N. gathering were trying to work out differences of opinion over a draft version of a new global agreement on air emissions that would go into effect in 2015, the BBC reported.
"The concern now is that time is extremely short," European Union climate Commissioner Connie Hedegaard said.
The British news network said the talks took a rocky turn when delegates learned a fake text with weaker targets and longer time tables was circulated, allegedly by the South African presidency after consultation with the EU, United States, Brazil, India and China.
While it hadn't been determined who was responsible for the unofficial document, European officials said it appeared to be an effort to derail the negotiations, the report said.
The Financial Times reported the summit, which was to have ended Friday, could last into Sunday as the representatives try to come up with a workable plan to succeed the Kyodo protocol on carbon emissions.
"The more this drags on, the more likely we are to lose momentum," one official told the British business newspaper.
Another delegate said the outcome was "impossible to call."
