Durban: After two weeks of chaos, infighting and mistrust, it's finally happened. All 196 countries cleared the text for a landmark deal at the Climate Summit in Durban. The breakthrough capped 13 days of hectic negotiations that saw high tension and drama between the developed and the developing nations. The existing regime Kyoto Protocol puts the onus only on the developed nations to curb emissions.
Management of a climate fund to aid poor countries has also been agreed upon though how the money will be raised has not been decided.
The debate ran past midnight and speakers lined up almost evenly on one side or the other as the dispute between the European Union and India got tense over the precise wording of the new 'roadmap'. Finally both the countries were given ten minutes to find a solution.
Environment Minister Jayanthi Natarajan said, "We were not happy with reopening the text but in a spirit of flexibility and accommodation shown by all we have shown our flexibility and we have agreed to this."...
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Durban: A major setback for developing countries like India at the UN Climate meet in Durban. India gave in on its tough position at the climate change conference in Durban, agreed with China to a treaty on emission cuts at a future date. The deal, which was sealed after a 36-hour delay puts all countries under a legal agreement to control greenhouse gases- something India and China had been opposing....
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