Lima talks to deliver draft for 2015 climate deal

The United Nations climate change conference this December in Peru must produce the first draft of a global deal to cut emissions, the country's environment minister has said.

Manuel Pulgar-Vidal said significant progress is needed in key areas including climate financing and how to tackle greenhouse gas emissions from deforestation.

The 20th session of the Conference of the Parties to the UNFCCC in Lima in December is a staging point towards the crucial summit in Paris in 2015 when it is hoped world leaders will agree, for the first time, a global deal on cutting emissions.

Pulgar-Vidal insisted he was optimistic but realistic about the summit but insisted its success would depend on the "political will" of the heads of state who attend the preceding UN climate summit in New York in September.

The minister also said he hoped the Lima summit would leave a legacy in his fast-developing and industralising country.

Peru has the world's fourth largest area of rainforest and deforestation accounts for more than 40 per cent of the country's carbon emissions.