Climate deal reached in Durban

Climate negotiators agreed a pact today that would for the first time force all the
biggest polluters to take action on greenhouse gas emissions. But critics said the action plan was not aggressive enough to slow the pace of global warming.

The package of accords extended the Kyoto Protocol, the only global pact that enforces carbon cuts.

It also agreed the format of a fund to help poor countries tackle climate change and mapped out a path to a legally binding agreement on emissions reductions.

Speaking at the end of the conference South African Foreign Minister Maite Nkoana-Mashabane, who chaired the talks said "We have made history," adding that there was the will to bring about an agreement. Listen