UN members agree deal at Lima climate talks
BBC News 14 December 2014 Last updated at 10:02 ET
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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 how to spread the burden of pledges to cut carbon emissions.

‘Not perfect’
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”.

Further advancing the Durban Platform
United Nations
Framework Convention in Climate Change
FCCC/CP/2014/L.14
13 December 2014 :: 5 pages
Conference of the Parties – Twentieth session
Lima, 1–12 December 2014
Agenda item 4 Report of the Ad Hoc Working Group on the Durban Platform for Enhanced Action