Environment and energy ministers from around the world have agreed on the fine print of the landmark Kyoto Pact to limit global warming, paving the way for its implementation next year, delegates said. The deal, reached after hard bargaining at the end of a two-week UN-sponsored conference on climate change in Morocco, provides a detailed rulebook governing the complex treaty aimed at limiting humanity's negative impact on the earth's climate.

“We have an agreement,'' British environment minister Michael Meacher told reporters in the early hours of Saturday at Marrakesh (morocco), after a final day of marathon talks.
The 1997 Kyoto Protocol commits developed countries to reduce emissions of the greenhouse gases -- mainly carbon dioxide from fuel combustion in industry -- blamed for global warming by trapping heat in the atmosphere, by an average of five percent from 1990 levels by 2012.
The long-term aim is to curb the artificial warming of the earth's climate and its consequences: rising sea levels, melting ice caps, changing rainfall patterns, increased flooding and more frequent droughts, according to UN scientists. Bureau Report