BRUSSELS: The European Union (EU) on Sunday (Monday in Manila) welcomed the outcome of United Nations climate talks in Lima as a “step forward” toward a global deal in Paris next year even though it had wanted a more ambitious result.

UN members meeting in the Peruvian capital adopted a format for national pledges to cut Earth-warming greenhouse gases and approved a blueprint to guide negotiations for a deal in Paris in December 2015.

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