For the last few days now, delegates at the Copenhagen Climate Change Summit have been battling to prevent the talks ending without reaching a final deal. And now it appears that they have reached one, after they passed a motion recognizing a US-backed deal on climate change.

According to news.bbc.co.uk, UN Secretary-General Ban-ki Moon told journalists this morning, that they had finally sealed a deal. Earlier, a US-led group of five nations, which included China, tabled a last-minute proposal that President Obama had called a “meaningful agreement.”

Although, the proposal had been rejected by a few developing nations, because they felt it failed to deliver the actions needed to halt dangerous climate change. To be accepted as an official UN agreement, the deal needed to be endorsed by all 193 nations attending the summit.

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