UN climate talks have closed with an agreement that the chair said had "saved tomorrow, today".

联合国气候会谈结束，此次会谈达成一项协议，大会主席称“今天拯救了未来”。

The European Union will place its current emission-cutting pledges inside the legally-binding¹ Kyoto Protocol², a key demand of developing countries.

Talks on a new legal deal covering all countries will begin next year and end by 2015, coming into effect by 2020.

Management of a fund for climate aid to poor countries has also been agreed, though how to raise the money has not.

Talks ran nearly 36 hours beyond their scheduled close, with many delegates saying the host government lacked urgency and strategy.

Nevertheless, there was applause in the main conference hall when South Africa's International Relations Minister, Maite Nkoana-Mashabane, brought down the long-awaited final gavel（小木槌） .

"We came here with plan A, and we have concluded this meeting with plan A to save one planet for the future of our children and our grandchildren to come," she said.

"We have made history."

The conclusion was delayed by a dispute between the EU and India over the precise wording of the "roadmap" for a new global deal.

India did not want a specification³（规格，详述） that it must be legally binding.

Eventually, a Brazilian diplomat⁴ came up with the formulation that the deal must have "legal force", which proved acceptable.

The roadmap proposal originated with the EU, the Alliance of Small Island States (Aosis) and the Least Developed Countries bloc⁵ (LDCs).

"If there is no legal instrument by which we can make countries responsible for their actions, then we are relegating⁶（降低到） countries to the fancies of beautiful words," said Karl Hood⁷, Grenada's Foreign Minister, speaking for Aosis.

"While they develop, we die; and why should we accept this?"