Yale Environment 360: The United Nations climate talks in Lima, Peru -- the worlds most recent attempt to reach an agreement on how to deal with climate change -- limped to a late close in the small hours of Sunday morning after narrowly avoiding breakdown.
After 12 days of meetings and more than 36 continuous hours of last-ditch negotiations, a loose draft emerged that provided for non-binding commitments from each nation to reduce its fossil fuel emissions. But a final deal that satisfies both rich and poor countries,...