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As the applause died down at the Moon Palace in the early morning on Saturday bringing the 16th annual climate change conference at Cancun to a close, the sense of achievement over the Cancun Agreements was replaced with a realisation that the road to Durban was going to be a difficult one.

Durban will host the annual UN climate change conference in 2011.

Spelling out its non-negotiables for an agreed outcome at the Cancun climate change conference, the group of four major developing economies

THE Union Cabinet, which drew clear red lines for Mr Jairam Ramesh

On the first day of the 16th annual climate change conference that began in Cancun on Monday, it became clear that the countries had made little progress from the failed previous meet in Copenhagen, but had actually moved backwards on certain issues.

The opening day of the two-week conference saw countries restating their old positions and bickering on how to take the troubled talks forward.