Nunatsiaq News – This is the first time that the world’s two biggest greenhouse gas emitters, the U.S. and China, have worked face-to-face on a climate change agreement. But the deal contains no legally-binding emissions targets. Yvo de Boer, executive secretary of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change, and U.S. President Barack Obama each described the deal, reached after talks moved into overtime late in the evening of Dec. 18, as “modest.”

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• Toronto Star: “Climate accord works for Jim Prentice” (Dec. 20, 2009).