Chica, thought you and everyone might like to see this. Like Coralina, I think it is valuable to see other countries' input.

The following is a brief summary of the main events of these talks (from an email received from Environmental Defense). I will post more on this later when the full report is available.

By Peter Goldmark, Program Director, Climate and Air, Environmental Defense:

6:20 pm Friday evening: A deal is reached on RED (Reducing Emissions from Deforestation)

6:40 pm: China and the E.U. reach agreement on Technology Transfer, which puts pressure on everyone else to come along.

8:15 pm: Our Russian connection reports that Russia continues to agree to nothing.

9:10 pm: Rum begins to flow at the Caribbean party down the hall from our post.

11:15 pm: We receive word that talks among the ministers have completely fallen apart.

11:25 pm: Key ministers meet again in private. Small Island States break out the liquor and put up a sign that says: "We Are Drowning Our Sorrows Before We Drown."

3:00 am Saturday: Informal ministerial meetings break to allowing time for consultations with capitals. Announcement that plenary will resume in morning.

3:30 am: Environmental Defense team goes back to hotel to sleep.

7:00 am: Environmental Defense teams arrives in Convention Center to secure "base" positions inside and immediately outside Plenary Hall. New draft text distributed by conference secretariat.

9:00 am: Jim Connaughton of White House summons U.S. NGOs to describe the U.S. position. He says the U.S. reached a compromise with E.U. and has support of Japan, Canada and Russia on new draft text.

10:00 am: India indicates it has problems with the draft. G-77 (a group of about 130 developing countries) recesses to discuss their varying degrees of unhappiness.

10 am to 1 pm: Informal meetings among ministers.

1:15 pm: Plenary session reconvenes. President of Indonesia and UN Secretary-General Ban K-Moon lecture the delegates on importance of coming to agreement. China chastises Secretary-General of UNFCCC for allowing scheduling of two meetings simultaneously to interfere with orderly progress of meeting. Secretary-General, who is exhausted, breaks down and leaves meeting. There follows one of the most extraordinary sessions of an international negotiation any of us have ever seen.

India presents a new text stating how the undertaking of developing countries to participate in the preparation of a global plan of carbon limits will be formulated, which has been arrived at b the G-77 in their caucus. The U.S. rejects it.

All this happens without any scripting or planning, in open session, on the floor, with NGOs and press filling the sides and back of the room.

One by one countries and blocs rise to support India. South Africa. Papua New Guinea asks the U.S. to lead or get out of the way. China. The EU. The Small Island States. One by one they rise to ask the U.S. to yield to the new language. Frankly, the new language is not sensational, but it represents for the first time the entry of the developing countries together into the global preparation of a plan for carbon limits, and it is their language. Canada is silent. Japan speaks, and no one can figure out what they mean, possibly including themselves. Not one voice among 190 countries is raised in support of the U.S.

3:10 pm: The pressure is like a huge, crushing weight in the room. And finally the U.S. asks for the floor - and yields. the room bursts into wild applause, and the Bali Roadmap is adopted.