Climate deal ‘profoundly distressing’, says Christian Aid

A deal brokered in the final hours of UN climate talks at the weekend is a “betrayal of people across the world”, Christian Aid has said.

The development agency’s climate expert Mohamed Adow said the deal reached at Durban, South Africa, had saved the talks but endangered the lives of people living in poverty.

Climate negotiators spent last week hammering out an agreement on carbon emission cuts. The “Durban road map” commits countries to drawing up a new pact by 2015, to come into force in 2020.

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