Copenhagen climate summit yields ‘real deal’ to limit greenhouse gases

COPENHAGEN — Last month, after two weeks of heated — at times, intensely inflammatory — talks, representatives of 193 nations agreed to a bare-bones framework for an international treaty to curtail global warming. But even its proponents admit it falls short of what’s needed.

The Copenhagen Accord, named for the Danish city in which it was forged on December 18, would cut releases of climate-altering pollutants by most of the world’s leading greenhouse gas emitters.