The U.S. and other wealthy countries persuaded their developing-nation peers to advance a framework that for the first time would spread the burden of economically painful emission cuts across all nations. The compromise reached at early Sunday at climate talks in Lima—part of negotiations aimed at reaching a final, comprehensive climate pact next year in Paris—would require every country to submit plans for cutting their carbon footprints in the coming months. The final deal being negotiated would be a departure from earlier agreements that put the responsibility of such cuts only on highly industrialized countries. But 13 days of United Nations-organized talks also showed that a North-South divide remains over which countries should shoulder most of the costs of […]