Climate Envoys Endorse Outlines of UN Pact

Bonn: Negotiators wound down a bruising round of talks on Friday with broad agreement on the rough outlines of a UN climate pact to be agreed in December.

"It is so decided," the co-chairman of the talks, Daniel Reifsnyder, said at the close of a fraught negotiating session in Bonn -- gavelling through a proposal to endorse the product of the five-day haggle.