China has thrown the UN climate summit into confusion as more than 100 senior ministers from around the world fly into the South African city of Durban for a final week of increasingly fraught talks on how to tackle climate change.
In a distinct shift in rhetoric from last week, the head of the Chinese delegation, Xie Zhenhua, said yesterday that Beijing was prepared to agree to some form of legally binding agreement that would cover all countries.
But he said this could only happen if five conditions were met, and probably not before 2020 when the current round of voluntary pledges agreed a year ago are due to end.
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