Climate deal sealed by US U-turn
15th December 2007 by Sarah Whitworth
Delegates at the UN summit in Bali have agreed a deal on curbing climate change after days of bitter wrangling, the BBC reports.
Agreement was reached after a U-turn from the US, which had wanted firmer commitments from developing countries.
Earlier, the EU and US agreed that industrialised countries would not set firm emissions targets at this stage.
The “Bali roadmap” initiates a two-year process of negotiations designed to agree a new set of emissions targets to replace those in the Kyoto Protocol.