Please turn on JavaScript. Media requires JavaScript to play. Key states have reached what they call a "meaningful agreement" at the Copenhagen climate summit. Five nations, including China and the US, reached a deal on a number of issues, such as a recognition to limit temperature rises to less than 2C. US President Barack Obama said it would be a foundation for global action but there was "much further to go". However, the deal could be rejected as a number of nations expressed "dissatisfaction" with the contents. "Can I suggest that in biblical terms, it looks like we're being offered 30 pieces of silver to sell our future," Tuvalu's lead negotiator Ian Fry said during the main meeting. "Our future is not for sale." AT THE SCENE Richard Black,

BBC News environment correspondent President Obama may have a deal with Brazil, China, India and South Africa - but it is not at all clear that he has a deal with anyone else. While the White House was announcing the agreement, most other delegations had not even seen it. This has clearly annoyed a number of countries who, when the agreement document, expressed their distaste in vigorous language - a "coup d'Etat against the UN". With no firm target for limiting the global temperature rise, no commitment to a legal treaty and no target year for peaking emissions, countries vulnerable to climate impacts are pointing out this "deal" does not guarantee the temperature targets they need. Richard Black's Earth Watch blog Mr Fry said his country could not accept the deal, as did Venezuelan delegate Claudia Salerno Caldera. "Mr President, I ask whether - under the eye of the UN secretary general - you are going to endorse this coup d'etat against the authority of the United Nations." Nicaragua submitted new documents to the meeting calling for the resumption of negotiations on new legal agreements, including emission reductions from developed nations. To be accepted as an official UN agreement, the deal needs to be endorsed by all 193 nations at the talks. The five-nation deal promised to deliver $30bn (£18.5bn) of aid for developing nations over the next three years, and outlined a goal of providing $100bn a year by 2020 to help poor countries cope with the impacts of climate change. President Obama said the US, China, Brazil, India and South Africa had "agreed to set a mitigation target to limit warming to no more than 2C and, importantly, to take action to meet this objective". He added: "We are confident that we are moving in the direction of a significant accord." US-LED COPENHAGEN DEAL No reference to legally binding agreement

Recognises the need to limit global temperatures rising no more than 2C above pre-industrial levels

Developed countries to "set a goal of mobilising jointly $100bn a year by 2020 to address the needs of developing countries"

On transparency: Emerging nations monitor own efforts and report to UN every two years. Some international checks

No detailed framework on carbon markets - "various approaches" will be pursued "The meeting has had a positive result, everyone should be happy," said Xie Zhenhua, the head of China's delegation. "After negotiations, both sides have managed to preserve their bottom line. For the Chinese, this was our sovereignty and our national interest." The agreement also included a method for verifying industrialised nations' reduction of emissions. The US had insisted that China dropped its resistance to this measure. During the two-week gathering, small island nations and vulnerable coastal countries have been calling for a binding agreement that would limit emissions to a level that would prevent temperatures rising more than 1.5C above pre-industrial levels. The G77-China delegation forced a number of suspensions in negotiations, accusing the Danish hosts of chairing the conference in a "undemocratic fashion", saying its views were being overlooked. 'Not perfect' EU Commission President Jose Manuel Barroso told reporters: "I will not hide my disappointment regarding the non-binding nature of the agreement here. It is now evident that beating global warming will require a radically different model of politics than the one in Copenhagen

John Sauven, Greenpeace UK

What do you think of the deal? Reaction in quotes In pictures: Summit's final hours "In that respect, the document falls far short of our expectations." However, he added that the EU would accept the US-led deal. The two-week summit had been deadlocked as world leaders had struggled to hammer out an accord. "The text we have is not perfect," said French President Nicolas Sarkozy. But he added: "If we had no deal, that would mean that two countries as important as India and China would be freed from any type of contract. "The United States, which is not in Kyoto, would be free of any type of contract. That's why a contract is absolutely vital." CLIMATE CHANGE GLOSSARY Glossary in full A number of leaders have now left the Danish capital, including the US president and Brazil's President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva. Reacting to the Copenhagen "deal", John Sauven, executive director of Greenpeace UK, said: "The city of Copenhagen is a crime scene tonight, with the guilty men and women fleeing to the airport. "There are no targets for carbon cuts and no agreement on a legally binding treaty," he observed. "It is now evident that beating global warming will require a radically different model of politics than the one on display here in Copenhagen."



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