EU climate change climbdown at Bali
Updated on 14 December 2007
The EU drops a key demand to include tough emission targets for rich countries in guidelines for a new global climate pact.
The UN's intergovernmental panel on climate change had called for cuts of between 25 and 40 per cent by 2020. But the United States has remained implacably opposed - forcing deadlock at the Bali talks.
It's three in the morning on the Indonesian island, and there's been no rest for the delegates. Now it seems a compromise is likely to emerge. But will it mean anything?
