The annual United Nations climate talks have wrapped up in Lima, Peru, after delegates from more than 190 countries reached a compromise deal that sets the stage for a global climate pact in Paris next year.
Under the deal, governments will submit national plans for reining in greenhouse gas emissions by an informal deadline of March 31, 2015 to form the basis of a global agreement due at the Paris summit.
The UN climate change body is to report back on the national pledges in November 2015.
The deal includes common responsibilities, and those that are unique to individual or groups of nations.
It also restores a promise to poorer countries that a "loss and damage" scheme will be
