Sagar Kulkarni
Copenhagen, Dec 19 (PTI) It was high drama at the venue
of climate talks here Friday night with US President Barack

With hopes fading of a summit draft, infact, it was a
dramatic turn of events Friday night, which led to a
breakthrough when all seemed lost.

After greetings and handshakes following Obama's entry,
the leaders got down to business discussing threadbare,
concerns and possible outcomes of several sticking issues.

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The Conference of Parties (COP) has taken note of the
deal and there is no lack of consensus on it, Prime Minister's

The tense negotiations at one stage saw Britain, France
and Australia expressing reservations on the Indian position
relating to emission cuts, mitigation targets and finance.

Betwa Sharma and Sagar Kulkarni
Copenhagen, Dec.19 (PTI) The climate change conference
Saturday failed to adopt a binding treaty on emission cuts and

The agreement calls on industrialised nations to set
their emission targets by February, 2010 and also asks the
developing countries to do the same.

U N Secretary General Ban-ki Moon said, "we have a deal
which is just the beginning of a process to evolve a binding
pact on controlling greenhouse gas emissions".

Copenhagen, Dec 19 (PTI) As the US and BASIC countries
struck a deal on climate change, US President Barack Obama
Saturday lauded India for setting forth "very significant