While the White House was announcing the agreement, most other delegations had not even seen it.

This has clearly annoyed a number of countries who, when the agreement document, expressed their distaste in vigorous language – a “coup d’Etat against the UN”.

With no firm target for limiting the global temperature rise, no commitment to a legal treaty and no target year for peaking emissions, countries vulnerable to climate impacts are pointing out this “deal” does not guarantee the temperature targets they need.