Veteran official leading China's delegation

'There is no time to waste in dealing with the risks of climate change'

This is the 9th year in which veteran climate official Xie Zhenhua has led the Chinese delegation to the United Nations Climate Change Conference, and it is quite a special one.

Negotiators always say the devil is in the details. Their mission in Paris is to remove all the square brackets that include things they don't agree upon, in the draft negotiating text on reducing carbon emissions, and to reach consensus on each word in the text.