It would like to see poor countries commit to minimum levels of spending on basic services (rather than a thicket of detailed targets) as part of a global pact that would include a significant boost to aid.
The EU and US also disagree sharply over the legally-binding nature of any global pact, although Cañete stressed that the bloc's alliances are evolving and provisional.
The process of forging a post-2020 climagreementment started with her extraordinary single-woman stand at the climate talks in Durban in 2011, where in the face of fierce opposition she pushed through a timetable for new negotiations that would culminate in 2015 with the signing of a global pact to come into force in 2020.
LONDON — Prime Minister Gordon Brown will use a speech at the United Nations Security Council on Thursday to offer the possibility of Britain's reducing its fleet of ballistic nuclear missile submarines as part of a new global pact on nuclear weapons, aides to Mr. Brown said on Wednesday.
Many had hoped that regional agreements in the early 1990s would lead to global pacts.
New York State Attorney General Eliot Spitzer on Monday said he agreed to settle claims with seven of the 10 investment banks that were part of April's $1.4 billion global pact over alleged biased research.
Can the UN climate process result in a global pact of substance?
That stance became even more isolated Thursday when Nicaraguan President Daniel Ortega announced his country will "soon" join the 2015 global pact of almost 200 nations.
Obama is effectively daring any Republican challenger to try to reverse the climate course he hopes to enshrine in 2015 in a global pact of universal reach.
Halting deforestation is a key focus of UN negotiations for a global pact to limit disastrous climate change caused by greenhouse gas emissions.
