Nations adopt pact on climate pushed by U.S.
Deal gives aid to poor nations, doesn’t mandate emission cuts
Posted: December 20, 2009 at 4:13 a.m.
A climate-summit delegate slumps in his chair Saturday after protracted wrangling over an agreement.
The U.N. climate talks ended Saturday after a 31-hour negotiating marathon with delegates accepting a U.S.-brokered compromise that gives billions in climate aid to poor nations but does not require the world’s major polluters to make deeper cuts in their greenhouse gas emissions.
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