CANCUN, Mexico (Reuters) - nearly 200 nations agreed on Saturday at the modest steps to combat climate change, including a new Fund to help poor and developed countries outside of the major conflicts in 2011 and beyond.
"It's a new era of international cooperation on climate change", Foreign Minister Mexico Patricia Espinosa told delegates at the end of two weeks of talks after breaking the deadlock between rich and poor countries.
Agreement, reached marathon in day to day talks includes a plan to develop a Green climate fund, measures to protect tropical rainforests and ways sharing clean energy technologies and help developing countries adapt to climate change.
He reiterated a goal to raise an annual $ 100 billion in aid to poor countries by 2020 and sets a goal to limit global average temperature below 2 degrees Celsius (3 6E) on pre-industrial elevation.
"The most important thing is that the multilateral process received a shot in the arm, it had reached a historical low. "He will fight another day,", said the Indian Minister Jairam Ramesh environment. "She could still fail."
The talks had lowered expectations after Barack Obama Bush and other leaders of the world has failed to reach agreement on a treaty at a Summit in Copenhagen, the last year. Cancun sets without firm deadlines for an elusive legally binding agreement.
Energy the United Kingdom and climate Secretary Chris Huhne said that Cancun is more likely that the European Union would increase to 30 per cent to 20 per cent during 1990 levels of greenhouse gas emission reductions.
"I think that certainly makes an agreement on 30 per cent in the European Union more", he said of the contribution of the European Union in order to avoid that the United Nations of climatologists Panel said will be more floods, droughts, desertification, landslides and the rise of the oceans.
Espinosa struck by his hammer on agreement Saturday last despite objections by Bolivia, who wanted to demanding much more deep countries rich, say their climate policies caused "genocide" with 300 000 deaths a year greenhouse gas reductions.
"I urge you to reconsider," delegate Bolivia Pablo Solon said Espinosa. After repeated by Solon anti-capitalist rhetoric, Espinosa replied that the Bolivian objections would be noted in a report final but could not sabotage the 190 countries.
The agreement has been unlocked after that simply creosotetreated delegates until 2011 and 2012, a dispute between rich and poor on the future of the United Nations Protocol from Kyoto, which requires to close to 40 rich to reduce emissions in a first period until end-2012.
"Cancun could have saved the process, but it does not even save the climate, said Wendel Trio of Greenpeace.".
Japan Canada, the Russia insisted during discussions that they extend not Kyoto, requiring that all major emitters, including the United States, China and the India also participate a new global agreement.
But developing countries say that rich Kyoto countries burned fossil from industrial to extend the agreement beyond 2012 before the poor revolution most agree measures to reduce their emissions.
Washington has never signed Kyoto, arguing that it wrongly failed targets for developing countries and would cost American jobs. Hopes to legislate on sections Obama disappeared after that Republican gains in the mid-term elections.
Many of the agreements of Cancun simply closes transactions not binding in Copenhagen, which have been approved by the nations only 140. Todd Stern, us climate Envoy said actions in Copenhagen have been "postponed in a truly exceptional way here today."
"It's really quite historic," says Christiana Figueres, head of the United Nations climate change secretariat.
"It's the first time that countries have agreed on a range of instruments and tools which will assist developing countries in particular," she says.
(Written by Alister Doyle, additional by Timothy Gardner, mounting by Eric Beech and Bill Trott)
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