National Geographic: It could have been a scene in a political thriller, the negotiators meeting into the early hours Sunday morning, going 48 hours without a break. Finally, they concluded the UN's 20th climate conference with a draft agreement that sets the stage for the next treaty on global warming.
The draft-a general framework that lacks specifics-is a compromise that leaves no one overjoyed but most happy that at least something was accomplished, after the whole process threatened to unravel just days earlier...