Advocacy groups not satisfied with climate negotiations thus far

PARIS, Dec. 11 (UPI) -- A draft climate agreement unveiled from U.N.-backed talks in Paris kicks many of the critical issues down the road, environmental activists said.

A 27-page draft text, as it stands, lays out an agenda to keep warming trends below a threshold considered acceptable to island and coastal nations. The draft does little, however, to address secondary concerns like migration.

Lucy Cadena, a campaigner with Friends of the Earth, said the draft agreement pushes many of the necessary actions down the road.

"Shockingly, the text could allow for carbon emissions to continue until 2099," she said in a statement.

Campaigners said they're frustrated with technological fixes like carbon capture and storage or economic measures like carbon-swap markets.

In a 2013 study, the International Energy Agency described carbon capture and storage as a "necessary addition" to other low-carbon energy technologies meant to drive down global greenhouse gas emissions.

Speaking from Paris this week, IEA Executive Director Fatih Birol said the energy sector must take a lead role in addressing climate change.

"Any agreement in Paris must have energy at its core, otherwise it risks to be a failure," he said in a statement.

Through the Oil and Gas Climate Initiative, a consortium of the largest energy companies in the world said they're committed to "significant actions" to cut greenhouse gas emissions from their operations. The 10 companies combined for about 10 percent of all global energy supplies and said they've reduced their greenhouse gas emissions by around 20 percent over the past 10 years.

Climate negotiators in Paris said they've agreed to some of the mechanisms needed to adopt an agreement, but pushed formal talks into Saturday.