UN summit on climate change in Lima: can deal be reached?

Diplomats hopeful of a global agreement after more than two decades of failed attempts

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There are hopes that a global deal to halt climate change will finally be thrashed out over the next two weeks at a United Nations conference in South America, which starts today.

Thousands of diplomats from around the world are gathering in Lima, Peru, in a bid to draft an agreement aimed at stopping the global rise of greenhouse gases. It comes after more than two decades of failed attempts to forge a global pact and a year before a landmark summit on climate change in Paris next year.

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