UN Climate Talks at Deadlock over Aid to Developing Nations Affected by Global Warming

UN envoys moved closer towards a deal at United Nations global-warming talks in Doha to settle differences on climate aid and fossil-fuel emissions, however, they are at a standstill on how to help vulnerable nations, according to reports.

"The contours of the package are becoming clear," said Fahad Bin Mohammed Al-Attiya, a diplomat from Qatar presiding over the talks, according to Business Week. "It's clearly within reach."

Meanwhile, the world's richest and poorest countries are divided over whether to create a new fund to help vulnerable nations such as Bangladesh, Kenya and the Philippines cope with loss and damage caused by climate changes.

The Philippines urged UN climate negotiators to learn from the deadly typhoon that struck the archipelago this week and wake up to the realities of global warming. Envoys from islands and other developing nations say the matter wouldn't be so urgent if wealthy economies lived up to their previous promises to provide aid.

"I appeal to the whole world, I appeal to leaders from all over the world, to open our eyes to the stark reality that we face," Filipino climate negotiator Naderev Sano told the yearly gathering of nearly 200 countries, according to the Times of Malta.

Such conditions that countries need to adapt to include extreme storms, erosion, floods and drought.

"The issue with the big guys is whether there should be a new mechanism at all or we use existing mechanisms," said Tony de Brum, head of the delegation of the Marshall Islands and representative of the Alliance of Small Island States, or AOSIS, a bloc of 43 island nations pushing for a loss-and-damage fund.

Developing countries say they need at least another $60 billion between now and 2015 to deal with the fallout from climate change. The US and EU, as a bloc, have refused to put concrete figures on the table in Doha for new 2013-2020 climate funding.