A new global climate deal has been struck after being brought back from the brink of disaster by three powerful women politicians in a 20-minute “huddle to save the planet”.
A major crisis had been provoked after 3am on Sunday morning, Dec. 11, when the EU clashed furiously with China and India over the legal form of a potential new treaty. The EU plan to bind all countries to cuts was close to collapse after India inserted the words “legal outcome” at the last minute into the negotiating text.
But there will be many environmentalists concerned that this agreement offers far too little and that reining in pollution is a far more difficult job in practice.
