A 'weak' outcome feared as Lima climate talks look to stretch into weekend

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Diplomats at the United Nations Climate Summit in Lima, Peru, have had a deceptively difficult task during the past two weeks: come up with a draft agreement that can be further honed over the course of the next year, and agreed to at a summit in Paris in December 2015. However, they do not need to finalize all the language, dotting all the i's and crossing the t's.

All parties agree that there needs to be a strong, workable framework for an agreement — like a well-constructed foundation of a home — that puts the world on course to cut manmade emissions of greenhouse gases after the year 2020 Read more...

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