Guardian: At 11.30pm Paris time, a small group of White House officials dashed into a temporary plywood hut in the exhibition hall where, a few hours earlier, a historic legal agreement to cut emissions causing climate change was secured. They were just in time to catch a live feed of Barack Obama declaring a turning point for the world.
These were the officials who helped set the US negotiating position for the talks or, perhaps more accurately, helped craft the deal according to US specifications...