LIMA, Dec 16, 2014 (BSS/AFP) - UN members on Sunday adopted a format for national pledges to cut greenhouse gases, the heart of a planned pact to defeat climate change.
At a marathon conference in the Peruvian capital of Lima, they also approved a broad blueprint for negotiations leading up to the historic deal, due to be sealed in Paris in December 2015. "The document is approved," declared Peruvian Environment Minister Manuel Pulgar-Vidal, as exhausted delegates cheered and clapped.