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UN members agree climate deal at Lima talks | UN members agree climate deal at Lima talks |
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United Nations members have reached an agreement on how countries should tackle climate change. | |
Delegates have approved a framework for setting national pledges to be submitted to a summit next year. | |
Differences over the draft text caused the talks in Lima, Peru, to overrun by two days. | |
Environmental groups have criticised the deal as a weak and ineffectual compromise, saying it weakens international climate rules. | |
The talks proved difficult because of divisions between rich and poor countries over the scale and scope of plans to tackle global warming. | |
'Not perfect' | |
The BBC's Matt McGrath in Lima said none of the 194 countries attending the talks walked away with everything they wanted, but everybody got something. | |
Peru's environment minister, Manuel Pulgar-Vidal, who chaired the summit, told reporters: "As a text it's not perfect, but it includes the positions of the parties." | |
The agreement was adopted hours after a previous draft was rejected by developing countries, who accused rich nations of shirking their responsibilities to fight global warming and pay for its impacts. | |
The final draft is said to have alleviated those concerns with by saying countries have "common but differentiated responsibilities". | |
It also restored a promise to poorer countries that a "loss and damage" scheme would be established to help them cope with the financial implications of rising temperatures. | |
However, it weakened language on national pledges, saying countries "may" instead of "shall" include quantifiable information showing how they intend to meet their emissions targets. |