Climate summit recognises US deal

Delegates at the Copenhagen summit have passed a motion recognising a US-backed agreement on climate change.

But correspondents say it is not yet clear whether the motion is unanimous or what its legal implications are.

Delegates at the climate summit had been battling to prevent the talks ending without reaching a final deal.

Earlier, a US-led group of five nations – including China – tabled a last-minute proposal that President Barack Obama called a “meaningful agreement”.

However, it had been rejected by a few developing nations which felt it failed to deliver the actions needed to halt dangerous climate change.

The majority of nations had been urging the Danish hosts to adopt the deal.

“The conference decides to take note of the Copenhagen Accord of December 18, 2009,” the chairman of the plenary session of the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) declared on Saturday morning, swiftly banging down his gavel.

To be accepted as an official UN agreement, the deal needs to be endorsed by all 193 nations at the talks.

This agreement isn’t a move towards achieving a reduction in CO2 out put or other forms of pollution which have contributed to global warming. Its just another way of avoiding any real changes in the behavior of the worlds nations or its people. After all with no verification there was no reason to even call this an agreement.