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U.S. President Barack Obama and Chinese President Xi Jinping spoke on some momentous climate change deals over the phone.

"Both leaders agreed that the Paris conference presents a crucial opportunity to galvanize global efforts to meet the climate change challenge," the White House said, reported The Economic Times.

The leaders who headed the biggest economies of the world, as well as the largest polluting nations came to attend the Nov 30 meet for the opening climate meet ceremony.

Jinping is said to be trying to enhance his coordination with many nations so that the Paris accord can be fruitful as needed.

"We still have some distance to cover before reaching our final deal, and some key issues remain unresolved. Developed countries should play the leading role and make greater efforts," said Chinese foreign ministry spokesperson Hua Chunying according to AFP.

On the morning of Dec. 12, the final draft of the text will be presented. "All the conditions are ripe for a universal and ambitious agreement. We will never find a momentum as favorable as in Paris, but now the responsibility lies with ministers, who tomorrow [Saturday] will make their choice. I will present them a text that will be the most ambitious and balanced as possible," said French foreign minister Laurent Fabius, who has been working on the draft.

United Nations secretary general Ban Ki-moon felt that these were the most complicated and difficult deals that he had ever been part of. "I have been attending many difficult multilateral negotiations, but by any standard, this negotiation is most complicated, most difficult, but most important for humanity," Ki-moon said.