What we've learnt so far in Paris

Australia backs target of limiting warming to 1.5 degrees

Foreign Minister Julie Bishop has landed at the Paris climate summit with some diplomatic smoothing to do after her Marshall Islands counterpart took issue over her making fun of suggestions islands in his country were disappearing due to climate change.

Ms Bishop is among ministers from across the globe arriving for the second and final week of the UN climate summit, where bureaucrats have been grappling with how to craft a global deal to tackle global warming.

After a fractured first week, negotiators on Saturday surprised some observers by delivering a draft version of a an agreement in good time and with reduced areas of dispute.