Climate talks ‘on brink of agreement’

NEGOTIATORS working into this morning expect to reach a compromise on climate-protection talks that may bow to U.S. pressure to drop emission reduction targets.

Yvo de Boer, executive secretary of the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change which is overseeing the talks, said negotiators were “on the brink of agreement”.

The U.S. has “been as keen as everybody else to make sure it walks away from here with a deal that includes the U.S”.