World leaders attending the climate conference in Copenhagen are struggling to get a deal on greenhouse gas emissions as the meeting is coming to an end.
"We are at the point with the clock ticking down where we are going to need a text to focus on quite soon," said Canada's Environment Minister Jim Prentice.
It was expected that a guideline for discussion would already be in the hands of Canada' s climate contingent.
We are ready willing and able to proceed to deal with theses issues," said Prentice.
Although progress appears to be slow, some headway was made Thursday. U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton offered to help raise $100 billion a year to help poorer countries fight global warming.
"The United States is prepared to work with other countries toward a goal of jointly mobilizing $100 billion dollars a year by 2020," said Clinton.
And there are some environmentalists that see this as a good first step.
"You fix the financing issue, things can look forward, trust can build and at the end, you can end up with a deal that's fair, ambitious and binding," said Dale Marshall with the David Suzuki Foundation.
This also helps take some of the pressure off of Alberta, as it has been in the cross-hairs all week despite publicizing its carbon capture plan.
"There needs to be recognition for a need for technology and the opportunity for any kind of compliance system to have allowances for investment in technology," said Alberta's Environment Minister Rob Renner.
Leaders will meet for a few final hours on Friday to try to draw out a deal.
With files from Rob McAnally
