The US rejected claims it was obstructing a new global agreement to curb greenhouse gas emissions and said it supported European Union calls for a “road map” to a new climate deal.
In comments EU ministers seized on to claim Washington was starting to back their demands in the final hours of talks, Todd Stern, the US’s top official at the UN climate talks, appeared to go as far as suggesting Washington now backed the EU road-map plan, the boldest offer on the table at the conference.
“The EU has called for a road map. We support that,” Mr Stern told reporters at a hastily convened news conference called shortly after he was heckled by an activist accusing the?US of blocking the talks.