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17 December 2007 - Negotiators trying to agree a road map for a new international climate change deal finally managed to broker a compromise deal on Saturday after days of wrangling.
Ministers from around 180 countries meeting in Bali agreed the agenda for a global emissions cuts agreement to launch negotiations for a post-2012 agreement to tackle climate change.
While it will be two years before a final deal on post-2012 is likely to be struck, countries have been fighting for the kinds of things they want to see on the table for those talks.
Groups of ministers worked through the night to hammer out the details of an agenda for the agreement which will replace the current Kyoto Protocol.
The EU conceded on one of the main sticking points - the inclusion in the road map of a reference of 25 per cent to 40 per cent emissions cuts by developed countries by 2020, which scientists have said are necessary to avoid dangerous climate change.
The EU had insisted the figures were in the document because they are based on the science of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) and an ambitious road map was needed. But the US demanded - and won - their removal, claiming they could "prejudge" outcomes of negotiations over the past two years.
On Saturday the Europeans accepted a road map in which the targets were missing, as were references to the need for emissions to peak within 10 to 15 years and for global greenhouse gas output to halve by 2050.
Instead the document said countries recognise that "deep cuts in global emissions" will be required, and calls for a "long-term global goal for emissions reductions".
In turn the US conceded over the issue in the road map of how much developing countries need to do to curb their emissions.
The US delegation had been pushing for stronger action from poorer nations - a demand which saw them booed in the hall where ministers and officials were meeting - but later dropped the request.
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