Manuel Pulgar-Vidal (right), COP20 president and Peru’s environment minister, and Christiana Figueres, UNFCCC executive secretary UN global warming talks in Lima finally reached an agreement early on Sunday after a marathon round of haggling that pushed the meeting more than 30 hours past its scheduled closing time. “Thank you very much,” said the relieved conference chair, Peruvian environment minister, Manuel Pulgar-Vidal, who worked frantically through the night to resolve a clash between the US, China and other countries that delayed a final agreement. But the deal agreed by delegates from more than 190 countries on a work plan for a global climate treaty to be sealed in Paris next year came after a series of compromises that many observers said had weakened the outcome. “It’s been watered down, but it’s not a roadblock,” said Alden Meyer of the Union of Concerned Scientists in the US. Some of the sections […]