 The conference president entered the plenary hall to a huge applause as the Cancún climate summit gets close to its end with a 'striking balance'. The no-nonsense Mexican foreign minister had been able to strike the balance that many countries had sought for. Patricia Espinosa was visibly embarrassed when ministers, bureaucrats, activists, journalists and officials refused to stop clapping. She had been able to produce a text that was, more or less, accepted by all parties. Without the pressure o strike a deal, almost all of the 190 countries rallied behind her and extended their support for the text. Even the ever critical Venezuelan delegation could not hold back its pleasure. They said this was an "amazing text" with "striking balance". The main hall reverberated with the sounds of applause as delegations took the floor one after another only to praise or commend Espinosa's efforts and extend their strong support to the text. Greenhouse gases trap the sun's heat in the atmosphere which raises temperatures leading to climate change through what are called extreme climate events like more frequent and intense floods and cyclones, rising sea level and causing persistent droughts. Experts say a temperature rise of over 2 degrees Celsius would result in 'catastrophic' climate change which may not be reversed. Espinosa put an end to the two-hour informal plenary just after Friday midnight and asked delegations to sit in their respective working groups in order to get through the tedious but necessary process. Those meetings will be followed by a closing plenary that will finally adopt the outcome barring any surprises. Mihir Kanti Majumder, Bangladesh's environment secretary, said the draft signified progress from what had come out of the last climate summit at Copenhagen. "This draft is acceptable and I think we can work on it and take it further," he said before hurrying off to the plenary on Friday evening. But another delegate of the Bangladesh contingent said the text was not at all the end and it is just the beginning as Espinosa had suggested during her closing speech. She said, "This conference is not an end but the beginning of a new stage of cooperation on solid basis." The delegate pointed out that there were several things that did not suit Bangladesh's negotiating position or the larger interests of the poor and vulnerable countries. "But all the parties agreed to it in the spirit of compromise." Ziaul Hoque Mukta, policy and advocacy manager for Oxfam Bangladesh who is also on the national delegation, said although not fully complete, "It has much potential to be developed." Mukta agreed that the text had the foundations necessary to launch serious negotiations by next year in Durban, South Africa where the next summit of the UN climate convention is scheduled to be held. Saleemul Huq, a senior researcher for the International Institute for Environmental Development, in his initial reaction to bdnews24.com approved the content of the text and the manner in which it was produced. He echoed points of the minister saying, "Two specific points that could be mentioned are the Adaptation Committee and the Green Climate Fund." Also a lead author of assessment reports produced by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, the top body on climate change, he said these two things were the demands of the poor and vulnerable countries. "We are getting that here." He went on: "It's a clean text. The Mexicans have run the negotiations really well. It was open and transparent." Already having had a cursory look, the long-time insider to complex climate negotiations approvingly said about the 32-page document, "They have been able to remove all the brackets." Huq said the text was a certain progress on Copenhagen and pointed out that it reflects "compromise". "Everybody does not have everything, they all have something." "But more importantly it brings back trust in the process and each other," he said. The glee and delight among participants clearly indicated that they were thankful to Espinosa for that particular reason — for bringing back their trust in the multilateral process.