Independent: The UN climate deal agreed between nearly 200 countries in the early hours of Sunday morning was welcomed by politicians but environmentalists and climate activists denounced it as both weak and ineffectual.
Differences over the draft text caused the two-week talks in Lima, Peru to overrun by more than a day before a compromise was finally struck.
For the first time, developing and developed nations have all signed up to publishing their national plans for curbing carbon dioxide emissions,...