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Progress toward compromise on climate change Juliet Eilperin and William Booth As they headed into a latenight session Friday night, delegates from 193 nations were making progress on a modest package of measures aimed at addressing climate change worldwide. Mexico, which is hosting the U.N.—sponsored talks, appeared to break to a logjam between the industrialized and developing world as it unveiled a proposal detailing how rich nations would help poor ones cope with global warming, as well as how major emerging economies could show they were cutting their own carbon output. Observers from the environmental community applauded the outline, describing the compromise agareements as modest progress. “It puts us on a path so the process can keep moving forward,” said David Waskow, climate change program director for Oxfam America, adding that although “it’s not everything we want, we’re pleased”. Mexico’s propsoal includes all the basic elements of what delegates had set out to achieve at the start of this year’s talks, including the establishment of an international “Green Climate Fund” to help developing nations curb their emissions and respond to climate impacts; a framework for compensating rainforest nations for preserving standing forests; a new method for transferring clean-energy technology from industrialized nations to developing ones; an international registry of nations’ emission-reduction commitments; and a process for monitoring the fulfillment of those pledges. It appeared to satisfy key constituencies—including the United States, which had pressed hard for a measure to verify whether countries including China and India were making the voluntary emission cuts they have promised to do in the years ahead. But Bolivia continued to criticize the plan as insufficent and too titled toward industrialized nations, and it remained unclear what final consensus would emerge from the negotiations. Mexican Foreign Secretary Patricia Espinosa urged ministers here to b