UN Climate Talks negotiators reached a consensus on some cornerstones of pact to be signed in 2015 which is aimed at slowing global warming breaking the deadlock.
Developed countries and fast growing economies reached a last minute compromise to avert a breakdown on UN climate talks in Warsaw, working towards the inking of a new UN pact in 2015 to slow down global warming.
After two weeks of negotiating, 200 nations agreed on working towards curbing emissions as soon as possible and ideally by the first quarter of 2015.
The agreement ended a deadlock between rich and poor about sharing out the burden of limiting emissions blamed on causing more heat waves, floods, drought and rising sea levels.
Under the climate pact, Kyoto Protocol, only the most developed countries were only required to limit their emissions.
China had insisted that developing countries should cut their emissions and allow emerging economies room to burn fossil fuels to end poverty.
But the US noted that all nations agreed in 2012 that the 2015 pact will be favourable to all and accused the emerging economies of harping back to previous deals.
Even after breaking the deadlock over which countries should minimize their emissions, talks on another issue was raised which has decided the poor and the rich: the aid that developed countries pay to developing nations to curb emissions.
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