Negotiators on Sunday adopted a compromise draft for national pledges to cut global carbon emissions at marathon UN climate talks in Lima, Peru that addressed India’s concerns and paved way for a new ambitious and binding deal to be signed in Paris next year to combat climate change.

“The document is approved,” announced President of the United Nations climate talks meeting Manuel Pulgar-Vidal, who is also the Environment Minister of Peru, after hectic negotiations for about two weeks in the Peruvian capital here.

Commenting on the draft, Environment Minister Prakash Javadekar said, “all of India’s concerns have been addressed.”

“We have achieved targets and we got what we wanted,” he said after the delegates approved a broad blueprint for talks leading up to a deal in 2015, to take effect in 2020.

The adoption of the draft was seen as a significant first step towards reaching a global climate change deal in Paris although delegates feel much of the hard work remained ahead.

The deal — dubbed the Lima Call for Climate Action — paves the way for what is envisioned as the historic agreement in environmental history.

The draft mentioned only that all pledges would be reviewed a month ahead of December 2015 Paris summit to assess their combined effect on climate change.

Pulgar-Vidal, who had spent entire day meeting separately with delegations, presented the new draft just before midnight, saying “as a text it’s not perfect, but it includes the positions of the parties.”

The negotiators were given an hour to review the revised draft text.

The revised draft has added a line in the preamble regarding “loss and damages” provisions which many small island developing states had requested.

The main plenary was reconvened at 1:30 am local time and Pulgar-Vidal announced that the draft text has been approved.

Consistent with India and other developing countries push, a separate paragraph was added regarding differentiation – the principle of categorising countries based on their ability to pay for climate action measures.

It reads that any Paris 2015 agreement should reflect “the principle of common but differentiated responsibilities and respective capabilities, in light of different national circumstances.”

The last portion was lifted directly from the US-China climate agreement announced in November of this year.