And so it ends...

I feel too exhausted now for a full analysis, but let me give some of the bottom lines:
- There has been an agreement by almost all countries in the world (including the US) on a so-called Bali Road Map. The decision is quite general and watered down, but the last contentious points (a request by the developing countries to change one detail, to which the EU agreed) was almost blocked by the US. After booing from the audience, and two great speeches by South Africa and Papua New Guinea ("if you're not willing to lead, please get out of our way!"), the US delegation bent. The agreement itself is extremely non-specific, but it's very clear that developing countries have committed themselves to action that they never did before. In the end, the agreement can probably be sold by all governments to domestic constituencies. The main thing is that they have now 2 years to come with a real agreement.
- Countries part of the Kyoto Protocol also now came to some first agreements over some contentious issues, especially regarding references to the work of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), but Canada withdrew its opposition, and Russian opposition could be negotiated away. Now there is one more session to go, but I will probably not see the end of that as I am about to go on my holidays.

So that's it for my climate conference reporting, off to the beach and the bintang!