1STLEAD: US, China reach climate change deal

Fri, 18 Dec 2009

Copenhagen/Washington - US President Barack Obama has reached a deal with China on climate change, the US television network MSNBC reported Friday, citing a US official in Copenhagen. The deal was expected to set the scene for a wider agreement on measures to combat global warming between close on 200 countries.

"We are minutes from a deal if nothing unexpected happens," diplomats close to the talks told the German Press Agency dpa.

The reported deal followed a series of 11th hour talks between the US, China, India and the European Union on the sidelines of a United Nations climate change conference in the Danish capital...