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The French hosts also won praise from negotiators for using a mixture of informal huddles, or indabas, and traditional shuttle diplomacy to bring the deal home.

According to veteran negotiators the indabas had made sure every country felt their views had been heard.

Negotiators also met in small informal group huddles, or “indabas” as they are known in the climate negotiations.

The indaba did narrow differences, reducing 900 bracketed points of contention in the draft text to about 300 before the last session.

Cronje stopped and cantered back again, seeming to hold an indaba with his petty officers.