Bolivia criticizes UN climate draft

Bolivia late Friday criticized a draft UN agreement on climate change as too weak and accused other nations of trying to isolate the leftist-led nation at a crunch conference in Mexico.
"This document doesn't take into account Bolivia's proposals," climate negotiator Pablo Solon told a first meeting to discuss the text.
"Bolivia isn't ready to sign up to a document which means a rise in temperature which will put more humans in a near-death situation," Solon added, charging it could allow a rise of more than four degrees Celsius.
Since decisions of the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change need to be made by consensus, Bolivia's stance raised the prospect of a second straight lengthy night.
But Venezuela, an ally of Bolivia that led opposition at last year's summit in Copenhagen, hinted it would not campaign against the draft.