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A Groundbreaking Deal at the Durban Climate Summit commits the US, China, and 192 other nations to the same legal regime to limit greenhouse gas emissions, starting in 2020. Details are to be negotiated by 2015.
Negotiations went down to the wire and past it with overtime, but in the end the US, China and India agreed to join a legal regime that will require all countries to limit greenhouse gases by 2020, with details to be further negotiated. The Kyoto Protocol will also continue for Europe. During the final hours Host Bruce Gellerman talked with Jennifer Morgan, the director of the Climate and Energy Program at the World Resources Institute.