Dec 11 (Reuters) - Following are reactions after 190-nation climate talks in Cancun, Mexico, agreed to a package of measures on Saturday to combat global warming after two weeks of talks but put off many of the hard decisions until 2011. [ID:nLDE6BA01O]
INDIAN ENVIRONMENT MINISTER JAIRAM RAMESH
"The most important thing is that the multilateral process has received a shot in the arm, it had reached an historic low. It will fight another day. It could yet fail. I don't think that the structural problems of multilateralism have been addressed. India is very happy with this package."
MEXICAN FOREIGN MINISTER PATRICIA ESPINOSA
"This is a new era of international cooperation on climate change."
CHRISTIANA FIGUERES, HEAD OF U.N. CLIMATE CHANGE SECRETARIAT
"It's really pretty historic ... It's the first time that countries have agreed to such a broad set of instruments and tools that are going to help developing countries in particular to meet the challenges of mitigation and adaptation."
NORWEGIAN ENVIRONMENT MINISTER ERIK SOLHEIM
"We restored the confidence in the U.N. It proved to the world that Cancun can deliver. In Copenhagen we gave up the idea of one big bang agreement. What we have achieved in Cancun is remarkable; we have constructed many floors in the future climate house."
WENDEL TRIO, GREENPEACE
"Cancun may have saved the process but it did not yet save the climate ... Some called the process dead but governments have shown that they can cooperate and move forward to achieve a global deal."
ALDEN MEYER, UNION OF CONCERNED SCIENTISTS
"Fundamentally there's not consensus coming out of here on the long-term way forward in terms of the legal regime, there are sharply different visions of what that should look like."
POUL ERIK LAURIDSEN, CARE
"There is no outright cause for celebration, but at least we have a sigh of relief. This shows that multilateral negotiations can produce results when there is political will."
JAKE SCHMIDT, NATURAL RESOURCES DEFENSE COUNCIL
"This definitely gives the climate talks an injection of energy. It's an agreement countries can begin to implement. We're trying to build this piece by piece so countries can feel comfortable about what they are getting into. There's still a lot of work to do next year. But the hard work is done and the key pieces are done and now the world can begin to implement them." (Compiled by Gerard Wynn, Patrick Rucker, Timothy Gardner, Alister Doyle) (For Reuters latest environment blogs, click on: http://blogs.reuters.com/environment/ )
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