UN Climate-Change Conference: Sealing the deal for future climate talks 

The deal reached at the UN climate-change conference in Peru ends the longstanding division of the world into only two kinds of countries, developed and developing, writes Michael Jacobs

IT WAS the agreement that everyone wanted, yet nobody much likes. This year’s annual UN climate change conference in Lima, Peru, finally concluded in the early hours of Sunday, more than 24 hours after the scheduled close, after fierce argument in the final days.

Negotiators from 196 countries patched together a compromise that keeps the world on course to a new global climate agreement in Paris next year; but almost everyone was left unhappy with some provision or another.