By Laurie Goering.

LONDON, Oct 27 (Thomson Reuters Foundation) – A new global deal to combat climate change, due to be agreed in December in Paris, must be “the departing station” for more ambitious efforts to move the world away from fossil fuels, the United Nations’ top climate official said this week.

“Over the next 50 years – and the timing is very important – we have to completely transform the global economy to very, very deeply decarbonise,” Christiana Figueres, head of the U.N. climate change secretariat, told a conference in London.

Paris is not the final destination. It is, if anything, the departing station

By the time the Paris summit starts on Nov. 30, countries that produce 92 percent of the greenhouse gases warming the world are expected to have produced national plans to curb their emissions and adapt to climate change, said experts at the meeting hosted by the Chatham House think tank.

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Image: An view of the landscape near Uummannaq, Greenland, and the fastest moving glacier on the planet. UN Photo