Climate Home: For over an hour on Saturday night, the Paris talks hung in the balance. At stake was US participation in a global agreement.
Screens beaming coverage of the main plenary to thousands of delegates outside were turned off, as what was billed as the coronation of a global climate deal rapidly turned sour.
The problem? One word: shall. The issue? Whether the US and other developed countries would be signing up to a UN treaty that would legally bind them to make specific greenhouse gas cuts.
That...