France has hailed the roadmap agreed at climate talks in Durban as an "important compromise", while the European Union dubbed it a "historic breakthrough".
The deal, reached after two days of round-the-clock wrangling, commits all countries that emit greenhouse gases to the same legal framework.
The roadmap, which will not come fully into operation until 2020, was "a success that guarantees the future of the [1997] Kyoto Protocol", French foreign ministry spokesperson Bernard Valero said in a statement.
Current measures to tackle carbon emissions are falling far short of the goal of limiting warming to 2.0°C.
According to research presented by German scientists, the world is on track for a 3.5°C rise, spelling worsening droughts, floods, storms and rising sea levels that would affect tens of millions of people.
It is "an important compromise that saves our ambitions for a global and effective agreement against climate warming," he said.
"Where the Kyoto [protocol] divides the world into two categories, we will now get a system that reflects the reality of today's mutually interdependent world," Connie Hedegaard, the EU commissioner for climate action, said in the statement.
And US chief negotiator Todd Stern found that the meeting "ended up quite well".
"The first time you will see developing countries agreeing, essentially, to be bound by a legal agreement," he said.
Environment campaigners were less enthusiastic.
The Kyoto Protocol has survived "in name only", according to Friends of the Earth Climate Justice Coordinator Sarah-Jayne Clifton.
"Led by the US, developed nations have reneged on their promises, weakened the rules on climate action and strengthened those that allow their corporations to profit from the climate crisis," she commented.
Greenpeace director Kumi Naidoo said that the US and its allies had "succeeded in inserting a vital get-out clause that could easily prevent the next big climate deal being legally binding".
"Right now the global climate regime amounts to nothing more than a voluntary deal that's put off for a decade," he said.
The agreement is scheduled to be approved in 2015 and be operational from 2020.
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THEY MORE THAN NYONE ELSE ON THIS PLANETS HISTORY HAS CAUSED MORE DAMAHE MORE FAMINES MORE EARTHQUAKES THEY HAVE DISTURBED THE EQUILIBRIUM OF THE PLANETS WETHER CYCVLES THEY HAVE DAMGED THE OUTERSPHERS THE ATMOSPHERES THEY HAVE CUASED COLOSOL MANIFESTATIONS OF THE WORST TRAGEDIES BESIDE WHAT WAS THE ICE AGE TO EARTHS COLECTIVE ENVIRONMENT. THESE ARE THEY NO MATTER HOW MUCH THEY PRETEND TO BE EMPATHETIC TO WHAT ARE THE UNIVERSAL CONCERNS AND WHEN CONFRONTED WITH STRUCTURED DATS THAT PROVIDES IRREFUTABLE EVIDENCE TO SHOW THEIR HYPOCRISY IN DENYING THEIR MASS DESTRUCTION WHICH HAS CAUSED ESPECIALLY AFRICA TO SUFFER AT THEIR HANDS EVN WHILE AFRICA IN GENERAL IS ONE OF EARTHS LOWEST POLLUTERS. THESE HYPOCRITS AT TIMES DARE TO SUGGET THAT WHEN AFRICANS COOK THEY POLLUTE THE ATMOSPHERE WITH THEIR CAMP FIRES ; HOW SAD IS THAT. THESE ARE THEY WHO MAS PRODUCE CHEMICAL AND RECENTLY NUCLEAR TRANSFER INTO OUR SEAS THEY DESTROY PRISTINE DRINKING WATERS. THEY CORRODE FERTILE ASTURES WHERE THEY DENY GROWTH FOR CENTURIES. THESE ARE THEY WHOM BECAUSE OF GREED PLUNDER WITH IMPUNITY THEY DEVELOP THEIR GREAT MILITARY INDUSTRIAL COMPLEX SO THEY CAN USE THIS FORCE AS A TOLL OF BULLYISM TO FORCE PEOPLE TO MARCH TO THERI ORDERS. WHAT IS FUNNY ABOUT THAT IS THIS IDEOLOGY IS WEAK IT CAN ONLY TO SERVE TO FRIGHTEN THOSE WHO ARE AS CORRUPT AS THEY AND ARE WILLING TO LIVE IN A WORLD OF NO HOPE. THESE PEOPLE ARE NOT PART OF THE BELIVERS WHOM ARE BELIEVERS THESE ARE THEY WHOM HAVE COME TO ACKNOWLEDGE THAT THERE IS "A SUPREME BEING "ONE WHO HAS GIVEN US WITH GENRSOITY THE PLANET TO LIVE LOVE AND ENJOY ITS MANY BEAUTIES AND WHAT IT CAN PROVIDFE FOR OUR LIVES. THE WISDOM OF THE "ALMIGHTY GOD" HAS INDEED FACTORED IN THE IDEAS THAT THERE WOULD BE THOSE WHO ARE SO SELFISH SO COVETIOUS SO CRAVEN THEY ARE THOSE WHO WHEN THEY EAT THEY PUT SO MUCH FOOD IN THEIR MOUTHS THEY CANT CHEW SO WHAT THEY DO IS CUT AN SWALLOW. EVENTUALLY THESE CRAVEN AND UNDELIGHTFUL PEOLE THE SELFISH ONES WILL CHOKE. WHEN THE4Y DOO WHO IS GOING TO PAT THEM ON THE BACK THEY WILL BE STANDING ALL LONE. THESE ARE THEY WHO WILL DIE A LONELY DEATH.ROME IS STILL HEREREMBER THEY ALL FADE AWAY. REMEBERD FOR THEOR TREACHERY TOWARDS MAN AND THE DISUNITY THEY SEW ON THE PLANET. THEIR LTTLE MISCHIEFS THEY DELIGHT THEM SELVES IN. THESE ARE THE WRONG DOERS THE UNBELIEVERS THEY DO NOT ACCEPT THAT MAN HAS TO SING SONGS OF PRAISES TO THE "ALLMIGHTY GOD "SHOULD IT NOT BE FOR THE BELIVERS THEY THE DISBELIVERS WOULD CEASE TO EXIST. LIKE I SAY THE REWARD FOR THE POR IS IMMEASUREABLE IT IS WRITTEN AND SAID THAT THE MEEK SHALL INHERIT THE EARTH. THEY HAVE HAD A REIGN THAT IS HOWN TO BE UNSUCCESSFUL , PARTIAL, BIAS ,DESTRUCTIVE , INCINSIDERATE , DISCRIMINATORY,IMBALANCED THE RQUILIBRIUM OF THE PLANET IS SO UNBALANCED IT CANT NOT BE FATHOMED. NO WHERE ELSE IN HISTORY IN THE FOLLY OF MAN HAS THERE BEEN SUCH TRAGEDYAND SUCH DEVASTATION. THE PORR WHOM ALWAYS SEEMS TO PAY WILL INDEED REAP THEIR REWARSD THEY WONT HAVE TO WAIT LONG. THE DEPARTURE OF THE GREDDY WILL BE POSTE HASTE THEY WILL BE CONSUMED WITH THEIR OWN FOLLY THEY WILL BECOME INEFFECTUAL THEY WILL HAVE VERY LITTLE IN TERMS OF WORLD POWER. THE EMPOWERMENT OF THE OPPRESED THE SUPRESSED THE DOWN TRODDEN WILL BECOME OVERTURNED JSUT AS THEY ARE THE OVERTURNERS THEY WILL BECOME THE OVERTURNED. THEIR PROMINENCE WILL CREAST TO EXIST THEIR WEAPONS OF MASS DESTRUCTION WILL BECOME ABSOLETE IT WONT BNIFIT THEM IN THESE TIMES ARE ANY OTHER. ALL THEY HAVE DOEN IS PURSUE VEUN AND CONCEITFUL SNDEAVOURS THEY AHVE SINNED WIHTOUT RECOMPENSE THEY AREUNREPENTENT IN THEIR FOLLIES. THEY WILL SUFFER GREATLY FOR IDOLATORY THEY WILL RENDER TO THE POWER OF THE "ALMIGHTY GOD" HE WILL MAKE HIMSELF KNOWN TO THEM WHILE FOR THEM THEY CAN ONLY SAY 2 IF I KNEW , I WOULD HAVE DONE BETTER" IT IS TOO LATE FOR THEM. CHNGES ARE THE DIFFERNCE OF LIFE AND DEMISE , THESE ARE THEY WHO ARE CERTAIN OF DE3MISE THEY KNOW THAT THEIR LIVES WERE JUST FOR THE MOMENT. THE LIVES WE HAVE ARE SO SHOR THIS IS WHY W E ARE GIVEN THIS SHELL AS A PRELUDE TO WHAT IT IS THAT OUR MASTER HAS IN PLACE FOR OUR ETERNAL SOULS, YES , WE ARE ALL ETERNAL SOME TO EMBRACE EVRLVING JOY WHILE OTHERS WILL RETAIN THE FIRE OF CONSEQUENTIAL PERPETUAL DEATH NEVER ENDING ONE THAT CAN NEVER BE REVERSED THEIR IS NO REDEMPTION FROM THE FIRE. TODAY THE WIZE IN HEART TO BE SURE TO BE SAFE IS TO WHAT IT IS TO BE RIGHT. IT IS NOT IN YOUR INTERST TO BE THE FOLLOWER OF THE DISBELIVER THEY WILL HAVE TO ATONE FOR THEIR ACTIONS. WE ARE LIVING IN A VERY REVEALING TIMES. WE SEE FOR OUR SELVES THE MADNES THE FOLLY THAT TRANSPIRES BEFORE US DAILY YET THOSE WHO ARE THE DENIERS THEY DONT CARE AND THEY CANT SEE TH INJUSTICES THE CORUPTIONS WHEN WE SAY CORRUPTION THEY HACE CORRUPTED MANY MINDS THEY HAVE ALSO CORRUPTED OUR SEAS OUR WATER OUR EARTH. THIS WORD CORUPTION CAN ONLY BE CREDITED TO THOSE WHO ARE INDEED GUILTY OF THE SELFISH ACTS. WE DONT HAVE TO THINK TWICE AS TO WHO THE GUILTY ARE. THEIR PUPPETS AND THEIR CO CONSPIRATORS WILL FEEL THE SAME DISGRACE AND THE SAME PAIN . THERE WILL BE NO EXCEPTIONS EVERY ONE OF US ON THIS PLANET WILL BE JUDGED . I SAY TO ASK OF WHOM IS MOST MERCIFUL TO DIRECT YOU IN THE WAYS OF INTELLECT ; TO RPOVIDE SUCH THAT WAS GIVEN TO YOUR ANSCESTORS WHO HAD THE POWER OF THE SOLAR WINDS AT THEIR COMMAND ..
THERE IS NOTHING NEW UNDER THE SUN ALL WAS HERE BEFORE AND WILL BE AGIN. SO TAKE TIME IN THE KNOWLEDGE TO KNOW THAT THE BELIVERS WILL BE GIVEN THE POWERS TO ELEVATE THEMSELVES FROM ETRNAL DAMNATION. HWO ARE THESE LITTLE MEN TO THINK THEY ARE MORE SUPERIOR TO ALL THE WORLD AND WE SHOULD DIE BECAUSE OF THEIR IGNORANCE AND IGNOMITY . RISE UP BUILD FOR YOUR FUTURE DO NOT EXPECT TO BE GIVEN ANY THING. THE CONTINENT ALONGSIDE THE PARTNERS OF HOPE DO NOT HAVE TO WORRY SHARE THE KNOWLEDGE SHARE THE RESOURCES AND THE EARTH WILL BE REVERSED FOR EVERMORE