Bonn meeting ends with last-minute compromise on Paris climate text

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Countries agree to let co-chairs of the negotiations to make their own alterations to the draft and present it for approval in July

Climate change negotiators meeting in Bonn on Thursday came up with a last-minute compromise that observers hope will put the talks on track for a new global agreement on greenhouse gases. Slow progress...

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