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, dpa reported.
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.
Diplomats had earlier told dpa that the US and the EU had been working on a skeleton proposal, to be presented for approval to a select group of global players.
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