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Weary Delegates Set Emissions Cuts for Developed Nations
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But hopes for a deal sank late Wednesday when China and India tried to strip from the treaty an emissions-trading arrangement favored by the West. A visibly weary Estrada, the conference chairman, warned the developing countries that they were "about to blow up the whole possibility of a treaty."
"I invite the whole delegation to reflect on the consequences of what you are about to do," he said.
After a short break, negotiators adopted a hastily crafted compromise that allowed the principle of emissions trading to stand while calling for a yearlong study of how such trading should be implemented.
The final details of the package were cobbled together well after daybreak as negotiators raced to beat the clock and retain the rapidly fading goodwill of the delegates, some of whom had not slept in days.
"This seems to be negotiation by exhaustion," complained Mark J. Mwandosya of Tanzania.
Staff writer Peter Baker in New York contributed to this report.
