Almost 200 nations are poised to adopt a compromise on how to curb climate change and to keep a key global warming target alive after 15 days of contentious climate talks.

Government negotiators from nearly 200 countries have adopted a new deal after a last-minute intervention by India to water down the language on cutting emissions from coal.

Delegations leave with the Earth pushing toward a future of escalating weather crises and irreversible damage to the natural world.

These waterlogged, acidic, low-nutrient ecosystems are the most carbon-dense lands on Earth.

The early version of the document circulating at the negotiations in Glasgow, Scotland, also impresses on countries the need to cut carbon dioxide emissions by about half by 2030.